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The Museum as a Cinematic Space - Elisa Mandelli

The Museum as a Cinematic Space

The Display of Moving Images in Exhibitions

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Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474484268 (ISBN)
CHF 39,95 inkl. MwSt
Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual projections. 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.

'Elisa Mandelli is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Link Campus University (Rome). Her primary research interests include cinema and visual arts, moving images in museums, film installations. Her writings have appeared in various edited collections and national and international journals.

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Part I. BETWEEN HISTORY AND MODERNITY: FILMS AND AUDIO-VISUALS IN EXHIBITIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 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



Chapter 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

How to show film footage? Showing the Imperial War Museum film collection

Trenches, tanks and the explosion of a mine: Mutoscopes at the Imperial War Museum (1924–38)

The Mutoscopes between novelty and obsolescence

Exception or rule? Debating the use of moving images in museum galleries



Chapter 3. Moving images in museums, world’s fairs and avant-garde exhibition design

Twentieth century avant-gardes and exhibition design

The cinematism of the exhibition space: El Lissitzky

Cinema and the dynamism of modern life: Moholy-Nagy’s Room of the Present

‘The paradise of the exhibitor’: museums and world’s fairs

Audio-visual devices at the New York Museum of Science and Industry



Chapter 4. The multi-media museum: film and audio-visuals in museums, 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’



Part II. THE MUSEUM AS A CINEMATIC SPACE: MUSEUMS AND AUDIO-VISUALS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Chapter 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

Chapter 6. Audio-visuals in exhibitions

Archival footage

Documentaries

Reconstructions and fictional films

Video testimonies

Chapter 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

Chapter 8. A walk through images

Galleries, projections, and cinematic effects: The Trento Tunnels

A film in space: Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale

Chapter 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

Chapter 10. Touching images

Touching, browsing: interactive tables

Rewriting space: The Museum Laboratory of the Mind

Interactions / interrelations

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality
Zusatzinfo 9 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13 9781474484268 / 9781474484268
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