| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 160 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality
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Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-156) and index. |
| Summary |
With an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book offers an extensive investigation of the use of audio-visuals in exhibition design. |
| Contents |
Part I. Between History and Modernity : Films in Exhibitions in the Twentieth Century -- 1. Cinema, Museums, Memory and Education -- The ocular evidence that is truthful and infallible par excellence' : Cinema, museums and the preservation of memory -- The Educational Role of Cinema -- Cinema, Museums and the Demands of Modern Life -- 2. `A dimly-lighted corner' : Moving Images in Museums in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century -- Museums and Movies : Cinema at the Imperial Institute -- Films as Exhibits : Moving Images inside the Museums' Galleries -- An Archive for the Preservation of Films at the Imperial War Museum -- Trenches, Tanks and the Explosion of a Mine : Mutoscopes at the Imperial War Museum (1924-38) -- Exception or Rule? Debating the Use of Moving Images in Museum Galleries -- 3. Moving Images in Museums, World's Fairs and Avant-garde Exhibition Design -- Twentieth-century Avant-gardes and Exhibition Design -- The paradise of the exhibitor' : Museums and World's Fairs -- Films at the New York Museum of Science and Industry -- 4. The Multi-media Museum: The 1960s-70s -- Museums and Films from UNESCO to World's Fairs -- The exhibition as A Mosaic : Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker -- Museums and the AV Revolution'. |
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Part II. The Museum as a Cinematic Space : Museums and Moving Images in the Twenty-first Century -- 5. From the Museum Experience to the Museum as an Experience -- From Objects to Visitors : The Virtualisation of the Museum -- Museums and the `Experience Economy' -- Moving images and the Museum Experience -- 6. Audio-visuals in Exhibitions -- Archival Footage -- Documentaries -- Reconstructions and Fictional Films -- Video Testimonies -- 7. The Museum and its Spectres -- The Mirror and the Portrait : The Widespread Museum of the Resistance in Turin -- The `Ghosts' of the Witnesses : The In Flanders Fields Museum -- Phantasmagoria -- 8. A Walk through Images -- Galleries, Projections and Cinematic Effects : The Trento Tunnels -- A film in space : Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale -- 9. New Interpretations of the Movie Theatre -- 'A bit like a large cinema' : The Big Picture Show at the Imperial War Museum North -- A Movie Theatre inside the Museum : The Historial Charles de Gaulle -- 10. Touching Images -- Touching, Browsing : Interactive Tables -- Rewriting space : The Museum Laboratory of the Mind -- Interactions/Interrelations. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Museums in motion pictures.
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Museums and motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Exhibitions.
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05.37 film, video. |
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ART -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General. |
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Motion pictures. |
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Museums and motion pictures. |
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Museums in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mandelli, Elisa. Museum as a cinematic space. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 9781474416795 (OCoLC)1039928892 |
| ISBN |
9781474416801 (electronic bk.) |
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1474416802 (electronic bk.) |
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1474416799 |
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9781474416795 |
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1474416810 |
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9781474416818 |
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9781474416795 |
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1474416799 |
| Standard No. |
9781474416795 |
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