On a Silver Platter : : CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology / / ed. by Greg M. Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bukatman, Scott,; Cartwright, Lisa,; Friedman, Ted,; Gack, Vanessa,; Jarmon, Leslie,; Jenkins, Henry,; Kelly, Brian,; Murray, Janet,; Ndalianis, Angela,; Smith, Greg M.,; Trope, Alison,; Wilson, Pamela,
• HerausgeberIn: Smith, Greg M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

When the new medium of CD-ROMs emerged, industry figures and critics alike proclaimed their virtually unlimited potential. Adapting material from well-established media like television and film, CD-ROMs have quickly transformed genres such as science fiction and horror. At the same time, the realiti...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1. Introduction: A Few Words about Interactivity
• 2. Before the Holodeck: Translating Star Trek into Digital Media
• 3. ‘‘To Waste More Time, Please ClickHere Again’’: Monty Python and the Quest for Film/CD-ROM Adaptation
• 4. ‘‘Evil Will WalkOnce More’’: Phantasmagoria— The Stalker Film as Interactive Movie?
• 5. Busy Box Interface: The Pleasures of Winding
• 6. Civilization and Its Discontents: Simulation, Subjectivity, and Space
• 7. Museum (Dis)Play: Imagining the Museum on CD-ROM
• 8. Virtual Kinship in a Postmodern World: Computer-Mediated Genealogy Communities
• 9. Fantasies of Mastery or Masteries of Fantasy? Playing with CD-ROMs in the 5th Dimension
• 10. Showing and Telling: Developing CD-ROMs for the Classroom and Research
• 11. Doing Theory in Hypermedia Practice: A Case Study of the HyperHistory Video Project
• Contributors
• Index