Spaces Mapped and Monstrous: Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture

Nick Jones

Published by Columbia University Press 2020

Spaces Mapped and Monstrous

Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture

Nick Jones

In the series Film and Culture Series

https://doi.org/10.7312/jone19422

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About this book

Spaces Mapped and Monstrous explores the paradoxical nature of 3D cinema and its place in today’s visual landscape. Considering 3D’s distinctive visual qualities and its connections to wider digital culture, Nick Jones situates the production and exhibition of 3D cinema within a web of aesthetic, technological, and historical contexts.

Author / Editor information

Nick Jones is a lecturer in film, television, and digital culture at the University of York. He is the author of Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory (2015).

Reviews

Janet Harbord, author of Ex-centric Cinema: Giorgio Agamben and Film Archaeology:
In this expansive inquiry, Nick Jones dispels the myth that 3D is simply a variant of planar cinema. For over a century, Jones contends, 3D has been vital to a shifting understanding of what images are and how we are mobilized through them. Encompassing both its experimental anamorphic facets and its complicity in the instrumentalization of the visual field, this account is a call for us to think 3D again.

Julie Turnock, author of Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics:
At once rigorously historical, inventively erudite, and highly original, Spaces Mapped and Monstrous combines digital theory, screen aesthetics, and media archaeology to persuasively argue that the digital aesthetics in 3D cinema should not be dismissed as "failed realism" or cheap gimmicks. Instead, these examples provide new spatial relations and epistemological regimes that help us better understand digital technologies more broadly.

Miriam Ross, author of 3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences:
This book’s highly polished arguments situate digital 3D cinema within major debates about the role of the image in contemporary society as well as related structures of power. Jones’s historical focus and interaction with significant visual culture debates situate the unique contribution this book has to offer.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1: CONTEXTS
1. History: The Long View of 3D Film and Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Visualization: From Perspective to Digital 3D Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
PART 2: MAPPED SPACES
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3. Simulation: Dematerializing and Enframing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. Immersion: Entering the Screen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
5. Surveillance: Converting Image to Space, World to Data Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
PART 3: MONSTROUS SPACES
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6. Defamiliarization: Rethinking the Screen Plane. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
7. Distortion: Unfamiliar and Unconventional Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
8. Intimacy: The Boundedness of Stereoscopic Media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Conclusion: Seeing in 3D Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 38 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: April 20, 2020
ISBN: 9780231550710