Crossmedia transfer and narrative in the “WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw” videogame franchise

WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw (THQ/Yuke’s 2004-2009) is a videogame franchise, developed by Yuke’s and published by THQ for multiple videogame consoles, based on a license to use World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)’s intellectual property: talent names, images, likenesses, slogans, wrestling moves, and logos that are popular thanks to WWE’s television broadcasts and live shows. After providing an introduction to professional wrestling and the WWE, this paper will discuss WWE’s crossmedial production and focus on the process of content transferring from the WWE’s television broadcasts and live shows to the videogames. This process was addressed differently in different editions of the franchise, particularly regarding the narrative elements. As an example, we will examine the first and the currently last episodes of the franchise. We will define what is being transferred (universe, events, objects, characters), discuss the different structures of the events in the games by applying the taxonomy proposed by Aarseth (2009), and analyze the franchise as a series of “documentary games” (Aarseth 2009), an approach that will extend the understanding of the transfer by considering the possibilities for counterfactuality or metafactuality.peer-reviewe

The Chunder Thunder Illusion

Best Illusion of the Year Contest - 2019 Title: The Chunder Thunder Illusion Authors: Mike Pickard and Gurpreet Singh Institution: The University of Sunderland “In this illusion, the 17th Dutch marine artist Ludolf Bakhuizen’s painting “Ships on a Stormy Sea” is seemingly bought to life. “The ship appears to be tossed around on a raging sea in a wild storm where the waves surge past and the clouds scud across the sky. "With the hatches battened down, the crew are experiencing a roller coaster ride! However, this impression of wild motion is illusory.

The editorial strategy of the Bijou collection. When media diversification reinforce an edifying ambition

This presentation will focus on the editorial strategy (Letourneux, 2017) of the popular Bijou collection, with particular emphasis on the multimedial aspect of the collection (glass plates, publisher's booklets, illustrated publications...) and the reappropriations produced by the catechists in the context of lantern projections. In this perspective, we would like to better understand the interrelationships between the different media and the specific contribution of each of them in order to meet the edifying purposes of the collection. This analysis of the co-presence of different media-forms will be supplemented by a genetic approach aiming at to retrace the fabrication process of this multimedia ensemble. Our hypothesis will be that the illustrations for glass plates play a crucial role from the beginning of the editorial process

A study of the Müller-Lyer illusion, with special reference to paradoxical movement and the effect of attitude,

"Off-printed from the American journal of psychology, January, 1923, vol. XXXIV."Thesis (PH. D.)--Clark university, 1922.Mode of access: Internet

Beyond the speeches on the citizenship, how political Islam has it forged the radical imaginary of young Europeans at the time as of years 2000 and beyond: resources and relationships to the contexts

Beyond the great concepts which nurture the speeches of the rupture and on which is already mobilized some research, other speeches or practices, with appearances sometimes less clear-cut, anre however likely to build, upstream, directly or indirectly, of the distance, the separation, the mistrust and even of the distrust with regard to others, and singularly of the non Muslims European. This article aims at specifying contours of this discursive compost which is likely to contribute to legitimate later on more radical speeches of violent rupture. In particular, it will aim at seizing how, within or around the European Muslim brothers movement, some speeches appear sometimes more paradoxical than those which are regularly publicly held up around the construction project of a modern and European citizenship