Sitting in a back room at London"s Barbican arts center, which is hosting the On Exhibition, Henry Jenkins delivers a line that would have jaws dropping in any gathering of the rich and famous.
"I think s are going to be the most 21 art form of the 21st century," he says.
It is, you might think, exactly what would be expected of someone introduced as "a professor of gaming."
But Jenkins is much more than that. He is the director of a graduate program in 22 media studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, which also covers film, television and other mass media. "s are a significant but not the primary focus of the program," he says.
"Our approach has been to 23 s more fully into the study of media, rather than apply them in one specialized field."
The problem is that video s have yet to achieve 24 . They are often seen roughly of equal status with ography (资料), providing instant contentment for the sort of people no one would invite to a dinner party. 25 everyone plays video s, but you may feel guilty if you are caught at it.
But things did not go exactly to plan. Jenkins wrote: "We were trying to start a conversation about gender, about the opening up of the girls market, about the place of s in "boy culture," and so forth. But all the media wants to talk about is video- 26 ."
The media madness reached new heights following the Columbine high-school 27 , which looked like something out of a first-person shooter.
He says: "the question is not whether video s are violent—obviously all story-telling traditions have included violence and aggression—the question is: "What are s saying about violence" Medieval epics are full of violence, and there"s a lot of blood-letting—but such stuff would never get 28 for a mainstream title."
"The difference in films is that 29 the fighting stops, you bury your head, and you remember who was lost. That forces you to think about the consequences of violence. And s are starting to introduce something similar, like 30 the dead. It"s not beyond the industry to say something thoughtful about violence."
A. inhibited B. respectability C. staggering D. massacre
E. periodically F. significant G. approved H. mourning
I. unanimous J. solitarily K. integrate L. comparative
M. practically N. intrigue O. violence