Language of Video Games in Cinema - Is the language of videogames just a first-person point of view (POV)?

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The goal of this paper is to discuss about the language of videogames and the particularity of its first-person point of view. It will also answer the question whether the language of video games is just a first-person point of view (POV) or not, and if it has some relation with other elements like narrative and interactivity; with this, it will discuss about this particular aspect of the language of the videogames in Cinema, analyzing three of the elements of the language as perspective or point of view, narrative and interactivity in pieces of Cinema like Doom: The movie (2005), an adaptation of a video game and The Blair Witch Project (1999), which is a movie that was filmed entirely in first-person shots or first-person perspective.

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