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
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I. From Cathedral to IMAX Screen: Case Studies in Immersive Spectatorship
1. Immersive Viewing and the "Revered Gaze"
2. Spectacle and Immersion in the Nineteenth-Century Panorama
3. Expanded Vision IMAX Style: Traveling as Far as the Eye Can See
4. "A Moving Picture of the Heavens": Immersion in the Planetarium Space Show
Part II. Museums and Screen Culture: Immersion and Interactivity Over Centuries
5. Back to the (Interactive) Future: The Legacy of the Nineteenth-Century Science Museum
6. From Daguerreotype to IMAX Screen: Multimedia and IMAX at the Smithsonian Institution
7. Film and Interactive Media in the Museum Gallery: From "Roto-Radio" to Immersive Video
8. Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Related Subjects
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.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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