Cinematic Appeals - The Experience of New Movie Technologies

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.

List of contents

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Moving Machines1. "Smothered in Baked Alaska": The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema2. East of Eden in CinemaScope: Intimacy Writ Large3. Digital Cinema's Heterogeneous Appeal: Debates on Embodiment, Intersubjectivity, and Immediacy4. Awe and Aggression: The Experience of Erasure in The Phantom Menace and The Celebration5. Points of Convergence: Conceptualizing the Appeal of 3D Cinema Then and NowNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

About the author

Ariel Rogers is assistant professor of film studies at the University of Southern Maine.

Product details

• Authors: Ariel Rogers, Ariel (Department of Communication and Med Rogers, Rogers Ariel
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2013
• EAN: 9780231159173
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15917-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / Digital, ART / Digital, ART / Film & Video, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills