On a Silver Platter : : CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology / / ed. by Greg M. Smith.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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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