The Games and Metamateriality issue of Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media has articles on narrative, adaptation, avatars…
Address: http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/latest-volume/
Articles and Contributors:
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Deviant Materials: Reflecting Surfaces and Hollow Bodies in CSI // Zach Whalen
Rez: An Evolving Analysis // Douglas Brown
Meaningless Play: The Psychological Experience of Shame in Computer Gameplay // Glen Spoors
The Paradigmatic Shift of Interactive Theatre into Aleatory, Tribal Playspaces // Lori Shyba
Notes On SuperFlat and Its Expression in Videogames // David Surman
The Eighth Wonder of the World Meets the Eighth Art: Some Thoughts on Medium Specificity and Experience in King Kong and Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie // Terence McSweeney
Conceptual Vertigo // Holly Willis
Narrative Production and Interactive Storytelling // Alex Mitchell
Authorship, Environment and Mediation in Role-Playing Games // Mike Skolnik
Digital Games and the Anamorphic Subject // Eugénie Shinkle
Rape and the Memex // Laurie Johnson
Affective Game Topologies: Any-Space-Whatevers // Felicity Colman
Playing for Keeps: A Game of Marbles and the Materiality of Gameplay // Peter Eric Bayliss
Editors:
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Christian McCrea, Swinburne University of Technology
Tom Apperley, Deakin University
Darshana Jayemanne, University of Melbourne
From the Editorial Statement: [...] The Refractory journal’s title calls attention to the transformations that take place when a work is adapted or remediated. If we take a lead from Walter Benjamin and consider a medium as a certain organisation of perception, however, it is possible to further ask in what ways a given medium represents not just the content of a given work, but another medium as such – that is, how the organisation of perception by one medium is adapted to another. In such a process, some comment on the material underpinnings of the refracted medium may be made, or perhaps an attempt to modify those materialities to suit the codes, histories and effects of the new form.
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Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media is a refereed, peer-reviewed, e-journal that explores the diverging and intersecting aspects of current and past entertainment media. The journal is published by the Screen Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
