Joystick Nation: Theater, Film and Interactive Gaming in 2020

Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative

Monday, March 29, 2010 : 4:00pm

University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240

Admission is free.


By the year 2020, will the seductions of virtual worlds triumph over our desires for communal forms of entertainment?

A panel discussion moderated by Martin Kaplan, director of the USC Annenberg School’s Norman Lear Center, will ask whether people will still go to the theater and movies as home entertainment becomes more sophisticated. In turn, how will this affect the business of entertainment and our culture as a whole?

The discussion will feature Mark Murphy, executive director of REDCAT, an interdisciplinary arts center housed at Walt Disney Concert Hall; Richard Schickel, film critic, historian and documentary-maker; and Tracy Fullerton, associate professor in interactive media at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab.

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