Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 7 weeks

所在平台: CourseraArchive

课程类别: 人文

大学或机构: Vanderbilt University(范德堡大学)

授课老师: Jay Clayton

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/onlinegames

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Intended for both newcomers who are curious about video games and hard-core gamers who want to reflect on their passion, this course will explore what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they become the basis of massively multiplayer online games.  The Lord of the Rings trilogy—the novels, films, and video game—are our central example of how “remediation” transforms familiar stories as they move across media.  We will study The Lord of the Rings Online against the backdrop of other games such as Final Fantasy , Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Skyrim; narrative theory, intermediality, and game theory; poems by Spenser, Coleridge, Keats, and Browning; fiction by Tolkien and others; and art since the Pre-Raphaelites that has influenced the neo-medievalism of much fantasy literature and gaming.

Drawing on centuries of romance narrative conventions, the twenty-first century gaming industry has become a creative and economic powerhouse.  It engages the talents of some of our brightest writers, artists, composers, computer engineers, game theorists, video producers, and marketing professionals, and in 2011, it generated an estimated $64 billion in revenue.  Anyone interested in today’s culture needs to be conversant with the ways this new medium is altering our understanding of stories.  Join me as we set out on an intellectual adventure, the quest to discover the cultural heritage of online games.

课程大纲

Week 1: Game on!  The history and theory of MMOs

Week 2: Tolkien and the romance tradition

Week 3: Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Ring trilogy

Week 4: Pwning Spenser’s Faerie Queene

Week 5: Space and time in virtual narratives

Week 6: Culture Guilds: Coleridge, Keats, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Week 7: The Holy Grail: A good end game

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For both newcomers and hard-core gamers who want to reflect on their passion, this course will explore what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they are turned into online games.

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