Shivers Down Your Spine

by Griffiths, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780231129893
• ISBN10: 0231129890
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780231503464
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-06-11
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
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Summary

"Through a series of detailed historical case studies, Alison Griffiths 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 the spectator's deepseated desire 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 interactives 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 her remarkable study of sensual spaces, Griffiths explains why, for centuries, we keep coming back for more."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Alison Griffiths is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

From Cathedral to IMAX Screen: Case Studies in Immersive Spectatorship

Immersive Viewing and the "Revered Gaze"

Spectacle and Immersion in the Nineteenth-Century Panorama

Expanded Vision IMAX Style: Traveling as Far as the Eye Can See

"A Moving Picture of the Heavens": Immersion in the Planetarium Space Show

Museums and Screen Culture: Immersion and Interactivity Over Centuries

Back to the (Interactive) Future: The Legacy of the Nineteenth-Century Science Museum

From Daguerreotype to IMAX Screen: Multimedia and IMAX at the Smithsonian Institution

Film and Interactive Media in the Museum Gallery: From "Roto-Radio" to Immersive Video

Conclusion

Notes

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

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