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Author:   Alison Griffiths
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.850kg
ISBN:  

9780231129893

ISBN 10:   0231129890
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   11 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

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

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This is a scholarly, in-depth study of an important aspect of museum exhibitions today... Highly recommended. Choice 2/1/009 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 Spring 2010 Beautifully illustrated... fascinating... engaging. -- Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska Technology and Culture 10/1/09

Author Information

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.

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