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

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

"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 inter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Griffiths, Alison, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2008.
Series:Film and culture.
Subjects:
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.
Case studies
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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