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
Alison Griffiths masterfully explores the uncanny and unforgettable visceral power of the medieval cathedral, the panorama, the planetarium, the IMAX theater, and the science museum. Examining these structures as exemplary spaces of immersion and interactivity, Griffiths reveals the sometimes surprising antecedents of modern media forms, suggesting a deep-seated desire in the spectator to become immersed in a virtual world. Shivers Down Your Spine demonstrates how immersive and interactive museum display techniques such as large video displays, reconstructed environments, and touch-screen computer technology have redefined the museum space, fueling the opposition between public and private, science and spectacle, civic and corporate interests, voice and text, and life and death. In this remarkable study, Griffiths explains why, for centuries, we keep coming back for more.
Alison Griffiths is a 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. Kovacs 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.
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
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