Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View - Film and Culture Series - Alison Griffiths - Books - Columbia University Press - 9780231129893 - June 11, 2013
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Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View - Film and Culture Series


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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

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