Movies on Games

[Yevgeniy.A.Slivkin-1 at OU.EDU]

Also "Playing the Victim" (Izobrazhaya zhertvu) which presents a modern Russian trickster type hero.

Yevgeny Slivkin
Department of Modern languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
University of Oklahoma

----- Original Message -----
From: Sandra Evans <sandra.evans at UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE>
Date: Monday, July 9, 2007 11:48 am
Subject: [SEELANGS] Movies on Games
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU


> Dear SEELANGerS,
>  
>  I would greatly appreciate any suggestions of Russian and East  
>  European Films that deal with the concept of "game" as a structured 
> or  
>  semi-structured activity, which generally involves goals, rules,  
>  challenges and a degree of interactivity. Aspects of consideration:  
> 
>  Games create autonomous worlds with codified rules that create order, 
>  
>  which however can be modified and even suspended by smart players.  
>  Player types lead a risky life in that they tend to oscillate between 
>  
>  chance and calculation, prefering possibility over reality. What is  
> 
>  the relationship between reality and game, life and cinema in movies  
> 
>  with those types of protagonists?
>  
>  Some examples from "Western" movies: The Hustler (Rossen), Charade  
>  (Donen), The Sting (Hill), The Game (Fincher), Dangerous Liasons  
>  (Frears), eXistenZ (Cronenberg), A Beautiful Mind (Howard), Casino  
>  Royal (Campbell) etc.
>  
>  Thank you in advance for your help.
>  
>  Best regards,
>  
>  Sandra Evans
>  Slavic Seminar
>  University Tuebingen, Germany
>  
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