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Creating From Video Games: Rhetoric of Video Game Détournement
Barnabé, Fanny
2018
 

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Keywords :
Détournement; Game Studies; Play studies; Rhetoric; Participatory culture; Let's play; Speedrun; Machinima; Fanfiction; Modding; Video games
Abstract :
[en] This paper aims to present the theoretical frame of the Ph.D. dissertation: Rhetoric of Video Game Détournement: The Pokémon Case. The topic of this dissertation is the “détournement” of video games by players, that is to say: the creative practices that use video games as materials or as matrices to produce derivative works. Precisely, this notion covers a diversified range of productions whose common feature is to be created from video games: mods (modifications of the game’s code by users in order to create a renewed game), fanfictions (narrative texts written by fans and based on pre-existing fictional universes), or machinimas, speedruns and let’s plays (which are various types of videos recorded inside video games). In this presentation, I will develop the notion of “détournement” and show that its interconnection with the concept of “play” raises some theoretical issues: what part of the game is transformed in these productions? From which degree of variation can play be considered as “transformative”? From which norm of the playing activity could we identify a “deviant” form of play? These are the questions I will try to answer.
Research center :
LEMME - Laboratoire d'Étude sur les Médias et la Médiation - ULiège
Liège Game Lab
Laboratoire "Jeux et Mondes Virtuels" (LabJMV)
Disciplines :
Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Barnabé, Fanny  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > R&D Direction : Chercheurs ULiège en mobilité
Language :
English
Title :
Creating From Video Games: Rhetoric of Video Game Détournement
Publication date :
18 January 2018
Event name :
Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies Seminar
Event organizer :
Hiroshi Yoshida
Event place :
Kyoto, Japan
Event date :
18/01/2018
Audience :
International
Funders :
Marie-Curie COFUND postdoctoral fellowship, University of Liège, co-funded by the European Union
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