Index

Introduction vii
Henry Lowood and Michael Nitsche

 I Reflections 1

 1 Video Capture : Machinima, Documentation, and the History of Virtual
Worlds 3
Henry Lowood

 2 From Game Mod to Low-Budget Film : The Evolution of Machinima 23
Matt Kelland

 3 Arrested Development : Why Machinima Can ’ t (or Shouldn ’ t) Grow Up 37
Katie Salen

 II Technology 51

 4 Toward a Machinima Studio 53
Friedrich Kirschner

 5 Image Future 73
Lev Manovich

 6 Tangible Narratives : Emerging Interfaces for Digital Storytelling and
Machinima 91
Ali Mazalek

 III Performance 111

 7 Machinima as Media 113
Michael Nitsche

 8 Encoding Liveness : Performance and Real-Time Rendering in Machinima 127
David Cameron and John Carroll 

 9 Machinima : From Art Object to Cultural Practice 143
Dan Pinchbeck and Ricard Gras

 10 Of Games and Gestures : Machinima and the Suspension of Animation 159
Peter Krapp

 IV Machine Cinema 175

 11 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Machinima? 177
Michael Pigott

 12 Machinimatic Realism : Capturing and Presenting the “ Real World ”of Video
Games 195
Jeffrey Bardzell

 13 Undefi ning Machinima 219
Erik Champion

 V Pedagogy 239

 14 Everything I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from Playing Video
Games : The Educational Promise of Machinima 241
Matthew Thomas Payne

 15 Machinima and Modding : Pedagogic Means for Enhancing Computer Game
Literacy 257
Danny Kringiel

 VI Context 275

 16 Pink vs. Blue : The Emergence of Women in Machinima 277
Robert Jones

 17 Participatory Fan Culture and Half-Life 2 Machinima : A Dialogue among
Ethnography, Culture, and Space 301
Gareth Schott and Bevin Yeatman

 18 Don ’ t Mess with The Warriors: The Politics of Machinima 315
Matteo Bittanti

List of Contributors 339
 Index 341