Cinematic Videogame Adaptation - by Bjarke Liboriussen (Hardcover)

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About the Book Offers the first comprehensive study of the first three decades of cinematic videogame adaptation. Book Synopsis Popular media products can be used to think about nature, global heating, sexuality and gender identity. Filmic Videogame Adaptation: An Ecoqueer Perspective condenses these topics into ecology and queerness and asks: what happens to ecology and queerness when a videogame becomes a film? The answer is given through close reading of five cinematic videogame adaptations ranging from films by trash provocateur Uwe Boll to the artistically ambitious The Last of Us streaming series. The close readings examine how adaptations can suppress ecology and queerness (a process…