Dr Andra Ivanescu
Senior Lecturer in Games Studies
Gaskell Building 175
- Email: andra.ivanescu@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265924
- Digital Arts - Games
- Arts and Humanities
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Ivănescu, A. (2024) 'A Playlist for the Apocalypse: Popular Music in Death Stranding', in DiTommaso, L., Crossley, J., Lockhart, A. and Wagner, R. (eds.) End-Game: Apocalyptic Video Games, Contemporary Society, and Digital Media Culture. Berlin : De Gruyter. , Video Games and the Humanities: Volume 16. pp. 193 - 208. ISBN 10: 3-11-075280-8. ISBN 13: 978-3-11-075268-7. Open Access Link
Ivănescu, A. (2024) '“POP/STARS”: The Personae of K/DA, Transmedia Marketing, and Riot Games Music'. Persona Studies, 10 (1). pp. 42 - 55.Open Access Link
Ivănescu, A. (2024) 'Inhuman Music and the Monstrous-Feminine'. Journal of Sound and Music in Games, 5 (1). pp. 24 - 38.Open Access Link
Girina, I. and Ivanescu, A. (2023) '‘The Real Is Out There.’ Digital games and cyberculture at the threshold of virtual reality in The X-Files', in Fenwick, J. and Rodgers, DA. (eds.) The Legacy of The X-Files. London : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 233 - 249. ISBN 10: 1-5013-8762-6. ISBN 13: 978-1-5013-8763-0.
Ivanescu, A. (2021) 'Pop Music, Economics and Marketing', in Summers, T. and Fritsch, M. (eds.) Cambridge Companion for Video Game Music. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 13: 9781108670289. Open Access Link
Ivanescu, A. (2020) 'The Auteur and the 80s Mixtape: Popular Music and Authenticity in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain', in Lorber, M. and Zimmermann, F. (eds.) History in Games: Contingencies of an Authentic Past. Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript. pp. 157 - 178. ISBN 13: 9783839454206. Open Access Link
Ivanescu, A. (2019) 'Popular Music in the Nostalgia Game: The Way It Never Sounded.'. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 10: 3030042804 ISSN 13: 978-3-030-04280-6
Ivanescu, A. (2018) 'Beneath a Steel Sky: A Musical Characterisation of Class Structure'. The Computer Games Journal, 7 (4). pp. 231 - 242. ISSN: 2052-773X Open Access Link