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Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View - Film and Culture Series Alison Griffiths
Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View - Film and Culture Series
Alison Griffiths
Alison Griffiths masterfully 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 a deep-seated desire in the spectator 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 technology 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 this remarkable study, Griffiths explains why, for centuries, we keep coming back for more.
392 pages, illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 11, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231129893 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 392 |
| Dimensions | 177 × 228 × 28 mm · 839 g |