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Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
Alison Griffiths
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Description for Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
Hardback. Since their inception, museums of science and natural history have mixed education and entertainment to incredible, eye-opening effect. Focusing on several historical case studies, this work explores the uncanny and unforgettable impact of the panorama, planetarium, IMAX theater, and the medieval cathedral on the spectator. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, B&W Illus.: 121,. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1044.
From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender new modes of seeing, listening, and thinking. What unites and defines many of these wondrous spaces is an immersive view-an invitation to step inside the virtual world of the image and become a part of its universe, if only for a short time. Since their inception, museums of science and natural history have mixed education and entertainment, often to ... Read more
From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender new modes of seeing, listening, and thinking. What unites and defines many of these wondrous spaces is an immersive view-an invitation to step inside the virtual world of the image and become a part of its universe, if only for a short time. Since their inception, museums of science and natural history have mixed education and entertainment, often to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231129886
SKU
V9780231129886
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About Alison Griffiths
Alison Griffiths is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York, and a member of the Ph.D. Program in Theater at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture, which won the Katherine S. Kovacs Award for ... Read more
Reviews for Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
This is a scholarly, in-depth study of an important aspect of museum exhibitions today... Highly recommended. Choice With this volume, Griffiths has established herself as one of the most ambitious scholars now straddling the various fields that comprise visual studies.
Randolph Lewis Museum Anthropology Review Beautifully illustrated... fascinating... engaging.
Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska Technology and Culture
Randolph Lewis Museum Anthropology Review Beautifully illustrated... fascinating... engaging.
Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska Technology and Culture