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Informationen zum Autor 'Elisa Mandelli is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Link Campus University (Rome). Her primary research interests include cinema and visual arts, moving images in museums, film installations. Her writings have appeared in various edited collections and national and international journals. Klappentext Takes an intermedial approach to examine how film has influenced exhibition designKey featuresUses an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework to enrich our understanding of the display of films and audio-visuals in museumsProvides in-depth analysis of the contemporary landscape, highlighting the continuities and fractures between different periods, contexts and practicesFeatures case studies to enhance our knowledge of contemporary museum practice Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, with screens and audio-visual projections frequently encountered by museum visitors. But when did films start to be displayed in museum galleries? And what are the issues at stake when showing moving images in exhibition spaces? With an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book offers an extensive investigation of the use of audio-visuals in exhibition design. Highlighting the continuities and fractures between different periods, contexts and practices, Elisa Mandelli shows the deep influence of audio-visuals on the configuration of the exhibition space, as well as on the relationship between museums and their visitors. Case studiesImperial War Museum (London, UK)New York Museum of Science and Industry (New York, US)Widespread Museum of Resistance (Turin, Italy)In Flanders Fields Museum (Ypres, Belgium)Trento Tunnels (Trento, Italy)Installation Peopling the Palace (Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy)The Big Picture Show at the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester, UK)Historial Charles de Gaulle (Paris, France)Museum Laboratory of the Mind (Rome, Italy) Zusammenfassung This book offers an extensive investigation of the use of audio-visuals in exhibition design! showing their significant influence on the configuration of the whole space and on the relationship between museums and their visitors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; PART I: BETWEEN HISTORY AND MODERNITY: FILMS AND AUDIO-VISUALS IN EXHIBITIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; 1: Cinema, museums, memory, and education'; 2: 'A dimly-lighted corner': Moving images in museums in the first decades of the twentieth century; 3: Moving images in museums, world's fairs and avant-garde exhibition design; 4: The multi-media museum: film and audio-visuals in museums, 1960s-70s; PART II: THE MUSEUM AS A CINEMATIC SPACE: MUSEUMS AND MOVING IMAGES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 5: From the museum experience to the museum as an experience; 6: Audio-visuals in exhibitions; 7: The Museum and its spectres; 8: A walk through images; 9: New interpretations of the movie theatre; 10: Touching images; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index...
