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Genre/Form: | Interactive multimedia Case studies Études de cas |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Griffiths, Alison, 1963- Shivers down your spine. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)762174255 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alison Griffiths |
ISBN: | 9780231129886 0231129882 9780231129893 0231129890 9780231503464 0231503466 |
OCLC Number: | 227000181 |
Description: | xv, 372 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 24 cm. |
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. |
Series Title: | Film and culture. |
Responsibility: | Alison Griffiths. |
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Abstract:
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.
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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 Read more...

