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- Publisher:
- Anthem Press
- Online publication date:
- October 2021
- Print publication year:
- 2021
- Online ISBN:
- 9781839980138
- Subjects:
- Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication
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A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema as a single, continuous and coherent medium, proceeding from 19th-century experiments in stereoscopic photography and lantern projection (1839–1892) to stereoscopic cinema’s “long novelty period” (1893-1952). It proceeds to examine the first Hollywood boom in anaglyphic stereo (1953-1955), when the mainstream industry produced 69 features in 3-D, mostly action films that could exploit the depth illusion, but also a handful of big-budget films - for example, Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney, 1953) and Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) - until audiences tired of the process; the anaglyphic revival of 1970-1985, when 3-D was sustained as a novelty feature in sensational genres like soft-core pornography and horror; the age of IMAX 3-D (1986-2008); the current era of digital 3-D cinema, which began in 2009 when James Cameron’s Avatar became the highest-grossing feature of all time and the studios once again stampeded into 3-D production; and finally the future promise of Virtual Reality.
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