Remaking Endings:
Adapting Russian blockbusters into computer games and the ethical implications of interactive narratives on dénouements’.
This project will investigate character construction and narrative structures in the adaptation of cinematic texts into interactive computer games. This is a new and urgent field of inquiry in the emerging Russian media and film studies. Focusing on three recent Russian blockbuster films Night Watch, Antikiller and Company 9 and their adaptations into computer games, this study will investigate the strategic revisioning of film characters and dénouements under conditions of interactivity. Outcomes from this research will be the first survey of the burgeoning field of Russian domestic computer game development in the context of a booming local box office.
This project will investigate character construction and narrative structures in the adaptation of cinematic texts into interactive computer games. This is a new and urgent field of inquiry in the emerging Russian media and film studies. Focusing on three recent Russian blockbuster films Night Watch, Antikiller and Company 9 and their adaptations into computer games, this study will investigate the strategic revisioning of film characters and dénouements under conditions of interactivity. Outcomes from this research will be the first survey of the burgeoning field of Russian domestic computer game development in the context of a booming local box office.
