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- Explores interesting, expressive and sophisticated uses of 3D
- Offers critique of recent digital 3D films
- Looks at the ways in which these films' themes and narratives benefit from dimensional technology
- Features close readings of Avatar, Gravity, The Hole, The Great Gatsby and Frozen
Part of the book series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television (CRFT)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book puts forward a more considered perspective on 3D, which is often seen as a distracting gimmick at odds with artful cinematic storytelling. Owen Weetch looks at how stereography brings added significance and expressivity to individual films that all showcase remarkable uses of the format. Avatar, Gravity, The Hole, The Great Gatsby and Frozen all demonstrate that stereography is a rich and sophisticated process that has the potential to bring extra meaning to a film’s narrative and themes. Through close reading of these five very different examples, Expressive Spaces in Digital 3D Cinema shows how being sensitive to stereographic manipulation can nuance and enrich the critical appreciation of stereoscopic films. It demonstrates that the expressive placement of characters and objects within 3D film worlds can construct meaning in ways that are unavailable to ‘flat’ cinema.
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept of Film and Television Studies, Univ of Warwick, Millburn House, Coventry, United Kingdom
Owen Weetch
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Expressive Spaces in Digital 3D Cinema
Authors: Owen Weetch
Series Title: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54267-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71294-6Published: 14 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54267-0Published: 26 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6133
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6141
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 168
Topics: Screen Studies, Film Theory, Animation