Pixels a Hollywood ( Pix N Love Edition )

À autumn 1976, Warner Communications Inc., the media and entertainment conglomerate, bought Atari, a small company specialising in a new form of entertainment, video games. Within a few years, Atari accounted for 30% of Warner Communications' total sales

An emblematic example of the relationship between Hollywood and video games, this industrial development is just one of the many examples of the relationship between Hollywood and video games;one of the many manifestations of the mutual interest in these two major areas of mass entertainment.

Adaptation, inspiration, pastiche, plagiarism, criticism… The exchanges between film and video games have taken varied and sometimes surprising forms.

From the 1970s to the present day, Des Pixels à Hollywood traces the shared history of cinema and video games, which are both competitors and partners in their conquest of the public. An economic and cultural history that shows how these fields of entertainment and the imaginary have profoundly changed the way the leisure industries operate and the production processes of contemporary fiction.

Summary : 

Chapter 1 - The film industry's interest in video games;matographique pour le jeu vidéo (1971-1976)

Chapter 2 - Stronger links between film and video games (1976-1984)

Chapter 3 - From crisis to revival in the video game industry: Hollywood and Japanese manufacturers (1983-1989)

Chapter 4 - The Hollywood majors and the video game industry at the dawn of the 1990s (1989-1994)

Chapter 5 - Emergence of the giants of consumer electronics and computing: Sony and Microsoft get in on the act (1994-2010)

Chapter 6 - Films adapted for video games (1975-2009)