TY - BOOK ID - 349695 TI - Shivers down your spine : cinema, museums, and the immersive view PY - 2008 SN - 9780231129886 9780231129893 9780231503464 PB - New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press DB - UniCat KW - Museology KW - Film KW - Audiences KW - Audiences. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Film. KW - IMAX. KW - Interactive multimedia. KW - Museum exhibits. KW - Museum. KW - Museums and motion pictures. KW - Museums KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Public spaces KW - Publikum. KW - REFERENCE KW - Shared virtual environments. KW - Spektakel. KW - TRAVEL KW - Visual communication KW - Visual communication. KW - Museum Administration & Museology. KW - Social aspects. KW - Film & Video KW - History & Criticism. KW - Social aspects KW - General. KW - Museums, Tours, Points of Interest. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:349695 AB - "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."--Jacket. ER -