The Museum as a Cinematic Space : : The Display of Moving Images in Exhibitions / / Elisa Mandelli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Mandelli, Elisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality : ESFI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.) :; 9 B/W illustrations

Takes an intermedial approach to examine how film has influenced exhibition designKey featuresUses an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework to enrich our understanding of the display of films and audio-visuals in museumsProvides in-depth analysis of the contemporary landscape, highlighting the continuities and fractures between different periods, contexts and practicesFeatures case studies to enhance our knowledge of contemporary museum practice Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, with screens and audio-visual projections frequently encountered by museum visitors. But when did films start to be displayed in museum galleries? And what are the issues at stake when showing moving images in exhibition spaces? With an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book offers an extensive investigation of the use of audio-visuals in exhibition design. Highlighting the continuities and fractures between different periods, contexts and practices, Elisa Mandelli shows the deep influence of audio-visuals on the configuration of the exhibition space, as well as on the relationship between museums and their visitors.Case studiesImperial War Museum (London, UK)New York Museum of Science and Industry (New York, US)Widespread Museum of Resistance (Turin, Italy)In Flanders Fields Museum (Ypres, Belgium)Trento Tunnels (Trento, Italy)Installation Peopling the Palace (Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy)The Big Picture Show at the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester, UK)Historial Charles de Gaulle (Paris, France)Museum Laboratory of the Mind (Rome, Italy)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Between History and Modernity: Films in Exhibitions in the Twentieth Century -- CHAPTER ONE Cinema, Museums, Memory and Education -- CHAPTER TWO ‘A dimly-lighted corner’: Moving Images in Museums in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century -- CHAPTER THREE Moving Images in Museums, World’s Fairs and Avant-garde Exhibition Design -- CHAPTER FOUR The Multi-media Museum: The 1960s–70s -- Part II The Museum as a Cinematic Space: Museums and Moving Images in the Twenty-first Century -- CHAPTER FIVE From the Museum Experience to the Museum as an Experience -- CHAPTER SIX Audio-visuals in Exhibitions -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Museum and its Spectres -- CHAPTER EIGHT A Walk through Images -- CHAPTER NINE New Interpretations of the Movie Theatre -- CHAPTER TEN Touching Images -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index