David A. Cook

A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema as a single, continuous and coherent medium, proceeding from 19th-century experiments in stereoscopic photography and lantern projection (1839-1892) to stereoscopic cinema's "long novelty period" (1893-1952). It proceeds to examine the first Hollywood boom in anaglyphic stereo (1953-1955), when the mainstream industry produced 69 features in 3-D, mostly action films that could exploit the depth illusion, but also a handful of big-budget films-for example, Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney, 1953) and Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)-until audiences tired of the process; the anaglyphic revival of 1970-1985, when 3-D was sustained as a novelty feature in sensational genres like soft-core pornography and horror; the age of IMAX 3-D (1986-2008); the current era of digital 3-D cinema, which began in 2009 when

James Cameron's Avatar became the highest-grossing feature of all time and the studios once again stampeded into 3-D production; and finally the future promise of Virtual Reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839980145
• Artikelnr.: 62641983

Autorenporträt

David A. Cook is a Professor of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, and the author of A History of Narrative Film (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Prefatory Note/ Introduction
1. "A New Way to Simulate Presence": The Foundations of Stereoscopic Entertainment, 1427- 1888
2. "A Very Vivid Impression of Movement": Early 3D Cinema, 1895-1952
3. "See It in 3 Dimension!": The First Hollywood 3D Boom, 1952-55
4. Stereoscopic Revival, 1970-85
5. The Age of IMAX, or the "Immersive Cinema," 1986-2009
6. The Blockbuster Years: Digital 3D, 2010-20
7. "A Diff erent Kind of Mental Image": Some Aesthetic Considerations about 3D
8. "Experience on Demand": Virtual Reality
9. Conclusion
3D Discography: Discs Viewed or Sampled in Preparation for This Book
Selected Bibliography
Index.