May 11 2013 In September 2013 the World 3-D Film Expo III will be taking place. They are screening a a special 60th Anniversary screening of the John Wayne western HONDO, followed by such treasures as ...
Our research provocations are a series of short, open ended idea pieces by stereoscopic media scholars. These provocations are musings and thoughts in progress, intended to spark response and debate. They ask for comments ...
One productive trend in 3D scholarship involves questioning the conventions of 2D spectatorship. Thomas Elsaesser suggests that 3D may “be retooling the semantics of embodied perception” as part of a “postpictorial spatial vision and in-depth sensation ...
In its fetishistic preoccupation with novel technology much of the commentary on contemporary 3D films overlooks the composition of the films, evaluating them as more or less successful demonstrations of the spectacular potential of ...
Various scholars seem recently to have argued that 2D cinema has always been a 3D cinema. Thomas Elsaesser, for example, suggests that the current wave of 3D cinema is simply the image track catching ...
Stereoscopic design signals Hugo’s socially isolated state during the early moments of Hugo (Scorsese, 2011) At the recent 3D Creative Summit at the BFI in London, a recurrent theme amongst the practitioners I saw ...
Given the number of established and emerging scholars engaging with stereoscopic media at recent SCMS and 3D Storytelling conferences, I find myself moved to ask what direction this new field is currently moving in, what ...
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