Comments on: Interview: Prof. Henry Jenkins

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:12:20 +0000

Evocative? Why head go bad? I meant well-composed.

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:11:46 +0000

Really good stuff, intelligent and evocative through out. Which makes this stand out even further:

It is hard to find a bad film – at least a really bad film – made in 1939. But, if the floor is very high, the ceiling is surprisingly low.

Yeah, aside from Gone With The Wind, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and THE WIZARD OF MOTHERFUCKING OZ, there really aren’t any standout films that year.

By: roBurky

roBurky — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:09:07 +0000

Thanks for this. It was a really interesting read.

By: DuBBle

DuBBle — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:07:22 +0000

Professor Jenkins’ response to your question about violence was most enlightening:

“The issue shouldn’t be how much violence is in the game but rather what the violence in a game means.”

I think that violence in games means less when it’s repetitive, and that the result of frequent, similar ‘tasks’ is inevitably emotional detachment and decreased pleasure. I’d love to see a game based on Dexter (an American TV show about a good-natured serial killer) in which acts of violence would be rare and the focus would be on the gruesome emotions evoked during the preparations, build-up, and process of murder.