Expressive Spaces In Digital 3d Cinema (palgrave Close Readings In Film And Television)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: The Expressivity of Space....Pages 1-16 ‘I See You’: Avatar, Narrative Spectacle and Accentuating Continuity....Pages 17-42 ‘You’re Going to Make It’: Ride Alignment and the Mastery of Stereographic Space in Gravity ....Pages 43-68 ‘You Only Looked that Way Because I Was Little’: Spaces of Terror and Reaching Maturity in The Hole ....Pages 69-98 ‘There’s an Ocean in the Way’: Written Words, Unreachability and Competing Testimonies in The Great Gatsby ....Pages 99-126 ‘Against the Wall’: Frozen’s Expressive Planarity, Attempts to Connect and Ambivalent Utopias....Pages 127-156 Conclusion: A Special Plea for Off-the-Screen Space....Pages 157-162 Back Matter....Pages 163-168