What Is a Videogame Movie?

Cinematic adaptations of videogames are an increasingly common feature film culture, and the adaptive relationship between these mediums is subject videogame studies. However, our ability to historicize theorize that hampered by a failure fully define generic character object study. This essay asks, what movie? It argues scholars (1) have not considered full range ways been represented in film; (2) attended historical, technological, figurative, social dimensions videogames; therefore (3) limited set possible texts comprise genre “videogame cinema.” The recommends tropological approach problem, defining six tropes movie” as genre, applying them two films, Her 1917, neither direct adaptation videogame, latter “about” or referencing any way, yet both exemplary broadened concept cinema”.