Interactive narrative - a contradiction in terms?
Article in the Independent about a new interactive drama from the BBC. Maybe an interesting case study that links to Manovich's ideas (except here from a popular culture perspective). Could it possibly work or is it doomed to be one of those interesting but fatally flawed concepts?
All the web's a stage as BBC drama goes interactive: Wannabees is a new play filmed for the internet in which characters turn to the audience for advice on what to do next - and then they'll act it out. So how on earth is that going to work? Meg Carter reports.
All the web's a stage as BBC drama goes interactive: Wannabees is a new play filmed for the internet in which characters turn to the audience for advice on what to do next - and then they'll act it out. So how on earth is that going to work? Meg Carter reports.
posted by Technoculture and New Media at 9:06 pm
1 Comments:
The topic opf 'interactive narrative' sure comes up in FTVMS 312... (if you go there).
Blogging is digital storytelling... in a multi-media, non-linear, hybridised kind of public way! And the only thing common about blogs and authors may be their software?
Some good resources for you, should you want them:
For FTVMS:
Murray, J. (1997). Hamlet on the Hollodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Detroit, Michigan: Free Press.
Glassner, A. (2004). Interactive Storytelling: Techniques for 21st Century Fiction. Natick, Massachusetts: A. K. Peters Publishing.
For ENGLISH LIT CRIT:
Bal, M. (1998). Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, 2nd Edition. Toronto: Toronto University Press.
Barthes, R. (1997). ‘Introduction to the Structural Analysis on Narratives’, in Image, Music, Text. Essays selected and translated by S. Heath. New York: Hill & Wang Publishing.
Chatman, S. (1980). ‘Narrative Theory Some Terms and Concepts’, Notes from Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film, Cornell: Cornell University Press.
Andrea
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