Expressive Spaces in Digital 3D Cinema

Author:   Owen Weetch
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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9781349712946


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   14 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Expressive Spaces in Digital 3D Cinema


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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.

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Author:   Owen Weetch
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349712946


ISBN 10:   1349712949
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   14 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: The Expressivity of Space.- 1. 'I See You': Avatar, Narrative Spectacle and Accentuating Continuity.- 2. ‘You’re Going to Make It’: Ride Alignment and the Mastery of Stereographic Space in Gravity.- 3. ‘You Only Looked that Way Because I was Little’: Spaces of Terror and Reaching Maturity in The Hole.- 4. ‘There’s an Ocean in the Way’: Written Words, Unreachability and Competing Testimonies in The Great Gatsby.- 5. ‘Against the Wall’: Frozen’s Expressive Planarity, Attempts to Connect and Ambivalent Utopias.- Conclusion: A Special Plea for Off-the-Screen Space.- Glossary of Stereoscopic Terms.- Notes.- Bibliography.- 

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Owen Weetch is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick.

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