Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games

Kelly I. Aliano

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Routledge
07 February 2025

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Museums & museology; Media studies

Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games is the first volume to explore immersion as it is experienced in all three of these storytelling forms: the theatre, museums and historic sites, and video games. It theorizes what it means for a work to be called immersive and how immersion impacts audience experience in each of these modes.

The presentation of story is deepened when it involves the spectator in an immersive way. Author Kelly I. Aliano concentrates on the central idea that the use of immersion in each medium allows the story being told to feel present for the spectator. It puts them at the center of the experience, making its events for and about them. Throughout, the book discusses how immersion is employed to make narrative feel more resonant and relevant for the audience. Analyzing the impact of offering a first-hand experience of story events, this book looks at how immersive storytelling can highlight the ways in which we can interact with and shape our understandings of ourselves and our society as well as our histories and identities.

Ideal for students, scholars, and researchers of immersive theatre, spectatorship, museum studies, and video game studies, this is an innovative study into the power of immersive storytelling across three interactive mediums.

By: Kelly I. Aliano
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781032593043
ISBN 10: 1032593040
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 07 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kelly I. Aliano is the author of two books, Theatre of the Ridiculous: A Critical History (2019) and The Performance of Video Games (2022). She is the Manager of Education Special Projects at The New York Historical Society and teaches in the English Department at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA.