Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View

Alison Griffiths

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August, 2008
Cloth, 392 pages, 79 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12988-6
$50.00 / £34.50

"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

"This volume is a stunning work, rich in research, sharp in its own analysis of that research, and far-reaching in its implications for further scholarship in cinema studies, pre-cinema historiography, visual culture, and cultural studies in general." — Dana Polan, professor of cinema studies, New York University

Series

• Film and Culture Series

About the Author

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.

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