Main entry:

Griffiths, Alison, 1963-

Title & Author:

Shivers down your spine : cinema, museums, and the immersive view / Alison Griffiths.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.

Description:

xv, 372 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 24 cm.

Series:

Film and culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and index.
Includes filmography: [335]-336.
Immersive viewing and the "revered gaze" -- Spectacle and immersion in the nineteenth-century panorama -- Expanded vision IMAX style : traveling as far as the eye can see -- "A moving picture of the heavens" : immersion in the planetarium space show -- Back to the (interactive) future : the legacy of the nineteenth-century science museum -- From daguerreotype to IMAX screen : multimedia and IMAX at the Smithsonian Institution -- Film and interactive media in the museum gallery : from "roto-radio" to immersive video.

Summary:

"Through a series of detailed historical case studies, Alison Griffiths explores the uncanny and unforgettable visceral power of the medieval cathedral, the panorama, the planetarium, the IMAX theater, and the science museum. Examining these structures as exemplary spaces of immersion and interactivity, Griffiths reveals the sometimes surprising: antecedents of modern media forms, suggesting the spectator's deepseated desire to become. Immersed in a virtual world. Shivers Down Your Spine demonstrates how immersive and interactive museum display techniques such as large video displays, reconstructed environments, and touch-screen computer interactives have redefined the museum space, fueling the opposition between public and private, science and spectacle, civic and corporate interests, voice and text, and life and death. In her remarkable study of sensual spaces, Griffiths explains why, for centuries, we keep coming back for more."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780231129886 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231129882 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231129893 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0231129890 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780231503464 (ebook)
0231503466 (ebook)

Subject:

Museums and motion pictures.
Museums Social aspects.
Museum exhibits.
Shared virtual environments.
Interactive multimedia.
Visual communication Case studies.
Audiences Case studies.
Public spaces Social aspects Case studies.
Musées et cinéma.
Musées Aspect social.
Objets exposés.
Environnements virtuels partagés.
Multimédias interactifs.
Communication visuelle Études de cas.
Espaces publics Aspect social Études de cas.
Audiences.
Public spaces Social aspects.
Visual communication.
Film
IMAX
Museum
Publikum
Spektakel
Museer.
Utställningar.
Interaktiva multimedier.
Muséer, film.
Visuell kommunikation.

Form/genre:

Interactive multimedia.
Case studies.

Added entries:

Film and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 283588
Call No.: BIB 221921
Status: Missing