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Informationen zum Autor Alison Griffiths is a Distinguished Professor of film and media studies at Baruch College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her Columbia University Press books are Carceal Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Twentieth-Century America (2016), and Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (2002). Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
