The museum as a cinematic space : the display of moving images in exhibitions / Elisa Mandelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandelli, Elisa, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality

Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums in motion pictures.

Museums and motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Exhibitions.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xii, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Part I Between History and Modernity: Films in Exhibitions in the Twentieth Century

1 Cinema, Museums, Memory and Education p. 17

'The ocular evidence that is truthful and infallible pat excellence': Cinema, museums and the preservation of memory p. 17

The Educational Role of Cinema p. 20

Cinema, Museums and the Demands of Modern Life p. 21

2 'A dimly-lighted corner': Moving Images in Museums in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century p. 27

Museums and Movies: Cinema at the Imperial Institute p. 27

Films as Exhibits: Moving Images inside the Museums' Galleries p. 29

An Archive for the Preservation of Films at the Imperial War Museum p. 31

Trenches, Tanks and the Explosion of a Mine: Mutoscopes at the Imperial War Museum (1924-38) p. 35

Exception or Rule? Debating the Use of Moving Images in Museum Galleries p. 40

3 Moving Images in Museums, World's Fairs and Avant-garde Exhibition Design p. 46

Twentieth-century Avant-gardes and Exhibition Design p. 46

'The paradise of the exhibitor': Museums and World's Fairs p. 51

Films at the New York Museum of Science and Industry p. 55

4 The Multi-media Museum: The 1960s-70s p. 61

Museums and Films from UNESCO to World's Fairs p. 61

The exhibition as A Mosaic: Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker p. 63

Museums and the 'AV Revolution' p. 65

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 p. 73

From Objects to Visitors: The Virtualisation of the Museum p. 73

Museums and the 'Experience Economy' p. 75

Moving images and the Museum Experience p. 78

6 Audio-visuals in Exhibitions p. 82

Archival Footage p. 82

Documentaries p. 85

Reconstructions and Fictional Films p. 86

Video Testimonies p. 87

7 The Museum and its Spectres p. 91

The Mirror and the Portrait: The Widespread Museum of the Resistance in Turin p. 92

The 'Ghosts' of the Witnesses: The In Flanders Fields Museum p. 96

Phantasmagoria p. 100

8 A Walk through Images p. 105

Galleries, Projections and Cinematic Effects: The Trento Tunnels p. 106

A film In space: Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale p. 110

9 New Interpretations of the Movie Theatre p. 115

A bit like a large cinema': The Big Picture Show at the Imperial War Museum North p. 116

A Movie Theatre inside the Museum: The Historial Charles de Gaulle p. 119

10 Touching Images p. 124

Touching, Browsing: Interactive Tables p. 125

Rewriting space: The Museum Laboratory of the Mind p. 127

Interactions/Interrelations p. 130.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1474416799

9781474416795

OCLC:

1039928892