Video games, cinema, Bazin, and the myth of simulated lived experience

Abstract

Video games theory has advanced far enough that we can use it to reevaluate film theory as a result, en route to broader, transmedial theorizing. This essay looks particularly at how video games can be seen as participating in and advancing Andre Bazin’s “Myth of Total Cinema”, and perhaps recontextualzing it as the Myth of Simulated Lived Experience.

Keywords

• Bazin
• Simulation