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

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

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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