Index
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: A Book Lover Longs For Cyberdrama 1
PART I. A NEW MEDIUM FOR STORYTELLING
1. Lord Burleigh's Kiss 13
2. Harbingers of the Holodeck 27
3. From Additive to Expressive Form 65
PART II. THE AESTHETICS OF THE MEDIUM
4. Immersion 97
5. Agency 126
6. Transformation 154
PART III. PROCEDURAL AUTHORSHIP
7. The Cyberbard and the Multiform Plot 185
8. Eliza's Daughters 214
PART IV. NEW BEAUTY, NEW TRUTH
9. Digital TV and the Emerging Formats of Cyberdrama 251
10. Hamlet on the Holodeck? 273
Notes 285
Bibliography 303
Index 316