bob performs play
Channel: bob plays video games
Date: 2019-07-04

In this video essay we're going to be looking at the similarities between theatre and video games, comparing the performance and spectating aspects of traditional and revolutionary theatre and traditional and revolutionary games, among others. We'll be delving deep into Katherine Whitlock's doctoral thesis, Ranciere's The Emancipated Spectator, Brecht, Boal, Aristotle and stuff. 

*correction MSG=MGS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

00:09 INTRO
01:10 PART I LETS PLAY NARRATIVE GAMES: PLAYERS AS PERFORMERS VS. PLAYERS AS AUDIENCE
07:38 PART II THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: ANALYZING LUDICAL INSTANCES THEATRICALLY
08:39 PART II a ARISTOTELIAN GAMING: ARISTOTLE AND 3RD PERSON SHOOTERS
10:36 PART II b THE EPIC GAME: BRECHT AND RPGs
16:46 PART II c THE FORUM GAME: BOAL AND MMORPGs
19:04 PART III LA MOLLEINDUSTRIA: REVOLUTIONARY GAMING
23:10 PART IIII THE EMANCIPATED GAMER: RANCIERE AND AUDIENCE AGENCY
27:52 OUTRO

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Katherine Lynne Whitlock: Theatre and the Video Game, Beauty and the Beast (2004)
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1086119742&disposition=inline

Jaques Ranciere, The Emancipated Spectator (Verso, 2009)

Charles - PLaying with one self, Eludamos Vol 3 no.2
http://www.eludamos.org/index.php/eludamos/article/viewFile/vol3no2-10/140

Markuu Eskelinien & Ragnhild Tronstad - Video Games and Configurative Performances, in The Video Game Theory Reader

VIDEOGRAPHY

Murray: Who's Afraid of the Holodeck: Facing the Future of Digital Narrative without Ludoparanoia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQpaM0kEf70

Saltz Brecht Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnQq62i2s_M (randomly found)

Brecht on stage1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1iAHP68e1Q

Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre: Crash Course Theater #44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7fqMPDcKXM

Interactivity -- Video Games & Theater (Ft. Brenda Laurel) | ShortOneGaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ZsznvxU6o

Karol Krok: Theater, Circus, Variety, Videogame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMTAkT1A05s

Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruely: Crash Course Theatre #43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK_vZuLYHcw

Super Bunnyhop - Critical Close-up: Metal Gear Solid (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQx_VG4S2Vc&t=347s

LUDOGRAPHY (in order of appearance) 

The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited 2015)
The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe 2013)
What remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow, Annapurna Interactive 2017)
Tomb Raider (Core Design, Eidos Interactive 1996)
Final Fantasy VII (Square, Sony computer Entertainment 1997)
EverQuest (Verant Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment 1999)
Metal Gear Solid (Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Konami 1998)
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy, Humble Bundle 2018)

La Molleindustria games 
http://www.molleindustria.org/

Lichenia
Nova Alea
Oligarchy
To Build A Better Mousetrap
Unmanned
Every Day the Same Dream
The Free Culture Game

DISCOGRAPHY
A selection of THUMB tracks used with permission of their bassist
@butespeciallythumb

I actually did forget to thank all the youtubers and video content creators that have inspired this channel or I have blatantly ripped off *couch cough folding ideas cough cough*

Errant signal, Super Bunnyhop, Heather Alexandra, Writing on Games, Fem Freq, et al for all the really deep dives into games

Contrapoints, HBomberguy, Philosophy tube for their ideas and radical editing and performances

Lindsey Ellis, Folding ideas, Brows Held High, also for their ideas and dissection of youtube as a medium

Also angie speaks, cuck philosophy, and shaun for making complex and nuanced expositions approachable.

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