Gooey Media - 9781399522762

Edinburgh University Press

Gooey MediaScreen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface\nAuthor(s): Nick Jones\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399522762, 978-1399522762\nSynopsis\nThe Graphic User Interface, or GUI, is the adhesive centre of todays screen entertainment web. From films and television to apps and videogames, it holds together a multitude of media and shapes the way they are accessed, organised, created, consumed, and manipulated. However, it does not do so without leaving viscous traces, and Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface examines this residue and its consequences, revealing how the GUI exerts a powerful influence on contemporary media.\nFocusing on aesthetics and adopting a media agnostic approach, Jones explores cinema, streaming platforms, television, user-generated content, videogames, apps, virtual reality, VFX, design software, and more in order to show how they c.