{"product_id":"shivers-down-your-spine-cinema-museums-and-the-immersive-view-9780231129893","title":"Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema  Museums  and the Immersive View","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of todays 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 history have mixed education and entertainment  often to incredible  eye-opening effect. Immersive spaces of visual display and modes of exhibition send \"shivers\" down our spines  engaging the distinct cognitive and embodied mapping skills we bring to spectacular architecture and illusionistic media. They also force us to reconsider traditional models of film spectatorship in the context of a mobile and interactive spectator.  Through a series of detailed historical case studies  Alison Griffiths masterfully 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 spectators deep-seated 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651894698037,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231129890","price":85.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231129893.jpg?v=1781844203","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shivers-down-your-spine-cinema-museums-and-the-immersive-view-9780231129893","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}