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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 Edinburgh Studies in Film and IntermedialitySeries Editors: Martine Beugnet and Kriss RavettoFounding Editor: John OrrA series of cutting-edge scholarly research monographs covering core aspects of film studies. The series' internationally respected authors contribute analytical and often controversial volumes, offering a critical intervention into their subject.'In her innovative work, Elisa Mandelli traces the fascinating history of films and moving images in exhibition design. Combining careful archival research with sharp analyses of contemporary museums, The Museum as a Cinematic Space offers an invaluable addition to our understanding of the theories and practices of audio-visual media displays in exhibitions.'Leonardo Quaresima, Professor of Cinema Studies, University of UdineMoving 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.Elisa Mandelli is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Link Campus University (Rome). She is member of the editorial board of the film studies journal Cinergie, and her writings have appeared in various edited collections and national and international journals.Cover image: Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, Turin (Ph. Fabrizio Esposito, courtesy of Museo Diffuso della Resistenza).Cover design: Stuart Dalziel[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1679-5Barcode 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...
