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Subject(s)

• Interactive multimedia [Browse]
• Virtual reality [Browse]
• Literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Narration (Rhetoric) [Browse]
• Cyberspace [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]

Summary note

Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck was instantly influential and controversial when it was first published in 1997. Ahead of its time, it accurately predicted the rise of new genres of storytelling from the convergence of traditional media forms and computing. Taking the long view of artistic innovation over decades and even centuries, it remains forward-looking in its description of the development of new artistic traditions of practice, the growth of participatory audiences, and the realization of still-emerging technologies as consumer products. This updated edition of a book the New Yorker calls a "cult classic" offers a new introduction by Murray and chapter-by-chapter commentary relating Murray's predictions and enduring design insights to the most significant storytelling innovations of the past twenty years, from long-form television to artificial intelligence to virtual reality. Murray identifies the powerful new set of expressive affordances that computing offers for the ancient human activity of storytelling and considers what would be necessary for interactive narrative to become a mature and compelling art form. Since Hamlet on the Holodeck's original publication, a practice that was largely speculative has been validated by academia, artistic practice, and the marketplace. In this substantially updated edition, Murray provides fresh examples of expressive digital storytelling and identifies new directions for narrative innovation. -- Back cover.

Notes

"Originally published by The Free Press, A Division of Simon & Schuster Inc."--Title page verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-394) and index.

Contents

• Preface to the 2016 updated edition: The future of narrative, revisited
• Introduction: A book lover longs for cyberdrama
• Part I. A new medium for storytelling. Lord Burleigh's kiss ; 2016 update ; Harbingers of the holodeck ; 2016 update ; From additive to expressive form: beyond "multimedia" ; 2016 update
• Part II. The aesthetics of the medium. Immersion ; 2016 update ; Agency ; 2016 update ; Transformation ; 2016 update
• Part III. Procedural authorship. The cyberbard and the multiform plot ; 2016 update ; Eliza's daughters ; 2016 update
• Part IV. New beauty, new truth. Digital TV and the emerging formats of cyberdrama ; 2016 update ; Hamlet on the holodeck? ; 2016 update.

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ISBN

• 9780262533485 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 0262533480 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016044867

OCLC

961035025

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