Alexis Blanchet, Des Pixels à Hollywood. Cinéma et jeu vidéo, une histoire économique et culturelle

Alexis Blanchet’s book forms part of a larger body of research for which he was made a Doctor in Film Studies at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense in 2009. The text under review revolves around “how these two major players [i.e. cinema and videogames] in the field of mass entertainment have developed intermittent economic, cultural and aesthetic ties over the course of the past forty years” (p. 13). Ever since the development of videogames in the 1970s, Hollywood’s major studios ...