@andreizanescu.bsky.social
Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia Blockbuster Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows Also Magic: The Gathering + Cultural Resonance Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press) www.andreizanescu.com
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Visual Game & Media Design is a cross-disciplinary program open to all creative BA students.
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COME VISIT! I will show you around town and let you know about the hidden gems!
24.02.2026 23:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thinking about @jathansadowski.com’s The Internet of Landlords (2020) a lot these days.
Landlords don’t always look like what we imagine them to be in everyday language. They’re actually much more pervasive.
"This will be great, if the funding comes through."
07.02.2026 23:09 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0I distinctly remember vibing to this song as a nine-year old with no idea what to do, while paramedics were loading my father into an ambulance for severe kidney stones.
12.01.2026 15:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But what if I just want ti play it because I’ve always loved it?
12.01.2026 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Instant subscribe.
11.01.2026 15:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Both volumes available in physical or digital formats from Bloomsbury.
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/epistemic...
But I also can't stress enough the breadth of awesome work you'll find in these books! This is a stacked cast of games scholars across 32 chapters, discussing genre from a variety of formal, cultural and anti-oppressive perspectives.
09.01.2026 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This chapter brings together genre literature on film, TV and games, along with contract theory and Charles Acland's theorization of the blockbuster film, to clearly define what a blockbuster game is.
09.01.2026 16:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I had the pleasure of contributing to Epistemic Genres, with my chapter -Blockbuster Games: Industrial Strategy Meets Genre - covering the meeting point between AAA/AAAA game production structures, aesthetics of maximalism and speed, and Hollywood affinities.
09.01.2026 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New book release! Absolutely massive double volume set on Game Genre edited by Gerald Voorhees, Joshua Call, Matthew Wysocki and Betsy Brey is out now from Bloomsbury.
09.01.2026 16:12 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Kyle MacLachlan makes a Twin Peaks themed Bento Box
youtu.be/YmI5iG0qakU
The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
31.12.2025 02:24 — 👍 94 🔁 39 💬 7 📌 6
Last up, I want to thank Angela Ndalianis and Helen Stuckey, who edited this collection of articles about Hollywood and Games for Convergence. None of this would be possible without them!
Also, CRKN for making this article available open access for all you.
This piece is dedicated to this game awards show as the groundwork for many of the shows we see around us today.
This is also the first iteration of my upcoming monograph on American game awards, as the site of cultural struggles around what games should be recognized.
Stay tuned for more!
Breaking my self-imposed holiday exile to shout out a new publication: mine!
Cybermania '94: Game awards before The Game Awards is now out through Convergence, fully open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
And the news doesn't stop coming! I had the pleasure of interviewing with @ledevoir.com a few weeks ago about the winding down (or shift) of the Microsoft and Sony console wars.
Article is in French, but feel free tor each out if you want an English translation!
www.ledevoir.com/culture/ecra...
This volume is, to my knowledge, the largest gathering of Romanian games scholars to date, which I feel honored to be a part of.
None of this would be possible without @andrei-nae.bsky.social 's tireless work over these last years to get the book across the finish line!
I was away from socials for a bit, and in the meantime, @andrei-nae.bsky.social's Video Games between Postcolonialism and Postcommunism dropped! I had the pleasure of writing a chapter, Anti-Balkanism in the Witcher, which I can't wait for folks to read.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
I'll see y'all in Chicago for SCMS 2026!
This year, I'll be talking about the strange relationship between James Cameron's Avatar franchise, and Ubisoft's Avatar game adaptations, through the lens of Ubi's industry documentation of their Snowdrop engine.
Anyone I know have experience with folks reaching out to translate content and repost it? I'm not knowledgeable about the pitfalls that might come out of this, but I would be interested in getting my content out to more people.
21.11.2025 13:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our brand-new and bilingual website for CGSA 2026 is now live (a whole day early, go us!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
We're officially ready receive your wonderful proposals (click the "Submissions" tab in the top-left).
As always, email us if you encounter any issues or have any questions. <3
Watched Weapons with my guinea pig. Neither of us will sleep well tonight.
03.11.2025 22:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In Phong we trust.
03.11.2025 22:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Why am I not surprised Cameron?
02.11.2025 02:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures
Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social
Out Jan 2026!
This has been a project long in the making, and evolving from several years of conversations with good friends and colleagues. I'm beyond proud to have worked with everyone to help bring these to life.
05.09.2025 02:51 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
