Contents -- Introduction -- I Reflections -- 1 Video Capture -- 2 From Game Mod to Low-Budget Film -- 3 Arrested Development -- II Technology -- 4 Toward a Machinima Studio -- 5 Image Future -- 6 Tangible Narratives -- III Performance -- 7 Machinima as Media -- 8 Encoding Liveness -- 9 Machinima: From Art Object to Cultural Practice -- 10 Of Games and Gestures -- IV Machine Cinema -- 11 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Machinima? -- 12 Machinimatic Realism -- 13 Undefining Machinima -- V Pedagogy -- 14 Everything I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from Playing Video Games -- 15 Machinima and Modding -- VI Context -- 16 Pink vs. Blue -- 17 Participatory Fan Culture and Half-Life 2 Machinima -- 18 Don't Mess with The Warriors -- Contributors -- Index.