Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
Alison Griffiths
September, 2008
Cloth, 392 pages, 79 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12988-6
$45.00
/ £31.00
Read an excerpt from the chapter, “A Moving Picture of the Heavens: Immersion in the Planetarium Space Show”
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Alison Griffiths is an associate 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. Kovács Award for the best published book in film and media studies. In 1999 Griffiths was awarded a Felix Gross Award for outstanding scholarship and in 2000 and 2002 she received a Eugene Lang Fellowship.Alison Griffiths (Ph.D, New York University) is the author of Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn of the Century Visual Culture (Columbia University Press, 2002); she won the Sixteenth Annual Society for Cinema Studies dissertation award in 1999 and the book won the SCS Kovacs Book Award. Her work has appeared in such journals as Popular Film and Television, Wide Angle, Continuum, Visual Anthropology Review, Film History, and in numerous anthologies on early cinema and media audiences. In 1999 Griffiths was awarded a Felix Gross Award for oustanding scholarship by a CUNY junior faculty members and in 2000 and 2002 she received a Eugene Lang Fellowship.
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