Main entry:

Murray, Janet Horowitz, 1946-

Title & Author:

Hamlet on the holodeck : the future of narrative in cyberspace / Janet H. Murray.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1998]

Description:

xii, 324 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : Free Press, ©1997.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index.
A new medium for storytelling -- Lord Burleigh's kiss -- Harbingers of the holodeck -- From additive to expressive form -- The aesthetics of the medium -- Immersion -- Agency -- Transformation -- Procedural authorship -- The cyberbard and the multiform plot -- Eliza's daughters -- New beauty, new truth -- Digital TV and the emerging formats of cyberdrama -- Hamlet on the holodeck?

Summary:

Here, Murray shows how the computer is reshaping the stories we live by and discusses the properties and pleasures of digital environments and connects them with the traditional satisfactions of narrative.

ISBN:

0262631873 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780262631877 (pb ; alk. paper)
8449307651
9788449307652

Subject:

Interactive multimedia.
Virtual reality.
Literature History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Cyberspace.
Virtual Reality
Multimédias interactifs.
Réalité virtuelle.
Littérature Histoire et critique.
Narration.
Cyberespace.
virtual reality.
cyberspace.
Literature.
Erzähltechnik
Neue Medien
Narrativität

Form/genre:

Interactive multimedia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277110
Call No.: BIB 211757
Status: Available