On a silver platter: CD-ROMs and the promises of a new technology

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Introduction : a few words about interactivity / Greg M. Smith -- Before the holodeck : translating Star Trek into digital media / Janet Murray and Henry Jenkins -- "To waste more time, please click here again" : Monty Python and the quest for film/CD-ROM adaptation / Greg M. Smith -- "Evil will walk once more" : Phantasmagoria, the stalker film as interactive movie? / Angela Ndalianis -- Busy box interface : the pleasures of winding / Brian Kelly with Scott Bukatman -- Civilization and its discontents : simulation, subjectivity, and space / Ted Friedman -- Museum (Dis)play : imagining the museum on CD-ROM / Alison Trope -- Virtual kinship in a postmodern world : computer-mediated genealogy communities / Pamela Wilson -- Fantasies of mastery or masteries of fantasy? Playing with CD-ROMs in the 5th dimension / Vanessa Gack -- Showing and telling : developing CD-ROMs for the classroom and research / Leslie Jarmon -- Doing theory in hypermedia practice : a case study of the hyperhistory video project / Lisa Cartwright.