Keeping It Reel: Is Machinima A Form Of Art?
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The grumpy gamers amongst us are still smarting over the important, challenging and frustrating questions made famous by Roger Ebert and Steven Spielberg; whether games could be classed as artworks, as capable of raising nobler emotions, or whether as works of art they could even be uttered in the same breath as cinema or literature. And if games cannot be art, how could machinima stake claims to being a form of art? Not only will I suggest the hackneyed question " but is it art " or " could it be seen as art " is important, I will suggest why this question is of particular interest and relevance to machinima.
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