Marina Hassapopoulou is assistant professor of cinema studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
""Into all the noise and chatter about participatory media comes this wonderful study, Interactive Cinema. Marina Hassapopoulou takes the reader on an expansive tour of the aesthetics and political engagements of what we casually describe as interactive media art practices. In the process, her analysis of a surprisingly diverse array of artistic interventions constructs a new historical path for how we understand multisensory audience experiences. Interactive Cinema investigates the conceptual limits of ‘interactivity’ and shows us the complexity of the related ethical conundrums. In your hands or on the screen before you is a powerful document of the rich, long-running intersection between interactivity and cinema."" —Charles R. Acland, author of American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder ""In this detailed and theoretically sophisticated study, Marina Hassapopoulou takes the study of interactive media to a new level, considering its technological, cultural, and ethical implications."" —Erkki Huhtamo, UCLA