I have been invited by a friend of mine, Eta Farmacelia Nurulhady, to give a webinar on literature and media studies at Universitas Diponegoro in a couple of days. This will be the first time in more than a decade that I have to connect my current research interest to literature. I am a bit nervous since I know that my knowledge of literary analysis is already rusty. That is why I choose to discuss the concept of ‘close reading’ in literature since this concept intertwines with medium-specific analysis in film and video game studies. I hope I will be clear enough to discuss the connections between close reading (in literature), ‘close watching’ (in film studies), and ‘close playing (in video game studies). Do join the webinar if this is a topic that you’d be interested in!