Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies

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Columbia University Press, 19 nov 2013 - 352 páginas
Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised to draw the viewer into the world of the screen, enabling larger-than-life close-ups of already larger-than-life actors. This technology fostered the illusion of physically entering a film, enhancing the semblance of realism. Alternatively, the digital era was less concerned with the viewer's physical response and more with information flow, awe, and the reevaluation of spatiality and embodiment. This study ultimately shows how cinematic technology and the human experience shape and respond to each other over time.
 

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Moving Machines
1
1 Smothered In Baked Alaska The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema
19
Intimacy Writ Large
61
Debates on Embodiment Intersubjectivity and Immediacy
91
The Experience of Erasure in The Phantom Menace and The Celebration
141
Conceptualizing the Appeal of 3D Cinema Then and Now
179
Notes
227
Selected Bibliography
299
Index
319
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Ariel Rogers is assistant professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University.

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