ISBN:
9780231503464
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 372 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Film and Culture Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Griffiths, Alison, 1963 - Shivers down your spine
DDC:
069
Keywords:
Public spaces - Social aspects
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Film
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Museum
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Spektakel
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Publikum
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IMAX
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Neue Medien
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Virtuelle Realität
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Electronic books
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Museum
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Film
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Spektakel
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Publikum
;
IMAX
Abstract:
From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender new modes of seeing, listening, and thinking. What unites and defines many of these wondrous spaces is an immersive view-an invitation to step inside the virtual world of the image and become a part of its universe, if only for a short time.Since their inception, museums of science and natural histor
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; I. FROM CATHEDRAL TO IMAX SCREEN: Case Studies in Imersive Spectatorship; 1. Immersive Viewing and the ""Reversed Gaze"" ; 2. Spectacle and Immersion in the Nineteenth-Century Panorama; 3. Expanded Vision Imax Style; 4. ""A Moving Picture of the Heavens"": Immersion in the Planetarium Space Show; II. MUSEUMS AND SCREEN CULTURE: Immersion and Interactivity Over Centuries; 5. Back to the (Interactive) Future: The Legacy of the Nineteenth Century Science Museum
Description / Table of Contents:
6. From Daguerreotype to Imax Screen: Multimedia and Imax at the Smithsonian Institution7. Film and Interactive Media in the Museum Gallery: From ""Roto-Radio"" to Immersive Video; Conclusion; Notes; FIlmography; Bibliography; Index
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