books by Tanya Krzywinska (cyberspace witchcraft videogame)

books by Tanya Krzywinska

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1 review
Geoff King

Wallflower Press, 2002

A great selection of topics, very professional
The first thing I would like to make clear in this review is something that the contributing authors make clear in every paper: the content of this book is not an attempt by film scholars to colonize game studies. I was delighted to see papers about specific games by academics who had actually played the games. Each paper is refreshingly different from the last, but they have all been ...

Sex and the Cinema
Tanya Krzywinska

Wallflower Press, 2006

From the sanctioned to the forbidden, the suggestive to the blatant, evocations of sex have saturated cinema with a heady distillation of fleshly passions. Whether laced in the rapturous rhetorics of romance or seeking to pack a harder erotic punch, cinematic representations of sex and sexual desire have provided cinema with one of its major attractions. Sex and the Cinema traces the numerous factors and contexts -- artistic, institutional, ...

Videogame, Player, Text

Manchester University Press, 2008

Videogame, Player, Text examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames and playing experiences. With essays from a range of internationally renowned game scholars, the major aim of this collection is to show how it is that videogames communicate their meanings and provide their pleasures. Each essay focuses on specific examples of gameplay dynamics to tease out the specificities ...

Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: Videogame Forms and Contexts
Geoff King, Tanya Krzywinska

I. B. Tauris, 2006

This book focuses on key formal aspects of video games and the experiences and pleasures offered by the activities they require of the player. A wide range of games are considered, from first-person shooters to third-person action-adventures, strategy, sports-related and role-playing games. Lively and accessible in style, this book is written for both an academic readership and the wider audience of gamers and those interested in popular ...

A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film
Tanya Krzywinska

Praeger Pub, 2005

The cinema of the occult celebrates the irrational and the magical, and it offers powerful and seductive narratives of desire, transgression, and fantasy. Why are magic and demonology such attractive subjects for filmmakers? Is the cinema of the occult an expression of a cultural need for the experience of the sacred? What cultural meanings are invested in demons, witches, possessed nuns, and voodoo priests?

Science Fiction Cinema: From Outerspace to Cyberspace (Short Cuts)

1 review
Paul Waldau, Tanya Krzywinska

Wallflower Press, 2000

short and sweet
This book is overall interesting, to the point and condenses a lot of film theory in a small space. However, the anaylsis of the science fiction film is a bit on the thin side. A better book would be Screening Space, or Alien Zone II ed. by Kuhn