Research on interactive drama, or interactive fiction in general, mostly focuses on character and plot development. It is important to investigate the change of plot and character responses due to interaction in interactive stories. However, it is also important to investigate the change of visual designs and setups, including lighting color, position and angle, camera angle, position, and move...

literary adaptation is recasting literary books such as novels, short stories, or even poems in a new form such as films, stage plays, or even video games. persian literature abounds with dramatic events. there are many fascinating narratives such as shahnameh of ferdowsi, khmseh of nezami, mathnavi of rumi, and tarikh-e beyhaghi of beyhaghi, which have the dramatic capacity of literary adaptat...

Research on the connections between drama and language learning is not new, and interest in the potential collaboration between these fields has increased in the last four decades. However, studies have mostly focused on students’ experiences and the type of drama activities that could be incorporated in their language class, neglecting key aspects of the specific skills language teachers might...

Interactive stories face a famous “authorial bottleneck.” Two existing approaches to this problem are story management systems, such as drama managers, and interactive narrative generators. Existing work leverages well-understood qualities of linear narrative such as suspense to generate content, but interactivity brings new capacities, like the ability to make a player experience regret. These...

The Story Makers Press is a university-based publisher who focus on making and publishing hybrid stories with children are under-represented in literature. This article explores the embodied drama processes used co-creation of our third book called ‘Zalfa Emir Warrior' eighteen 10–11-year-old girls from second generation Pakistani heritage. Utilising practitioner inquiry, paper examines ways wh...

This article deals with the social and cultural dimensions of globalization and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse the effects of stronger European integration on media production and reception. It combines theories and methods from sociology, anthropology and media studies and looks at the impact of TV drama genres on the forming of social imaginaries. The article examin...

Although every era is met with the introduction of powerful technologies for entertainment and learning, videogames represent a new contribution binding the two and bearing the potential to create sustained engagement in a curricular drama where the player’s knowledgeable actions shape an unfolding fiction within a designed world. Although traditionally, stories involve an author, a performer, ...

is a collection of twelve short stories chronicling the lives of four physicians and the patients that they encounter. Bloodletting is an honest and revealing work, which entertains while challenging the reader to reflect on some of the ethical issues presented. The characters have strong initial presentation, but this falters towards the denouement. A scene in the anatomy lab introduces us to ...