Christian McCrea

Mr. Christian McCrea

Lecturer
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About

Christian McCrea is a lecturer in the School of Design, with research and teaching specialising in games and play, technology consumption and the changing nature of social networks.

Christian has published pieces on:
- world-building
- writing and narrative for games
- digital uses of the occult and pre-Christian mythology
- horror video games genre history
- differences between portable and mobile game design
- Starcraft and watching strategic play
- transnational media cultures
- corporate film + game systems
- film philosophy and Giorgio Agamben
- theory of vernacular culture
- animation and violence.

Research fields

  • 3605 Screen and digital media
  • 4701 Communication and media studies
  • 4702 Cultural studies

Teaching interests

Game design, game studies, Japanese popular culture, fan cultures, cultural theory, anime, animation, sub-cultural studies.

Research interests

Games, Game Design, Art Theory and Criticism, Communication and Media Studies, Philosophy

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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