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OverviewCinematic 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ariel RogersPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780231159166ISBN 10: 0231159161 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 19 November 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Moving Machines 1. Smothered in Baked Alaska : The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema 2. East of Eden in CinemaScope: Intimacy Writ Large 3. Digital Cinema's Heterogeneous Appeal: Debates on Embodiment, Intersubjectivity, and Immediacy 4. Awe and Aggression: The Experience of Erasure in The Phantom Menace and The Celebration 5. Points of Convergence: Conceptualizing the Appeal of 3D Cinema Then and Now Notes Selected Bibliography IndexReviewsRogers' fascinating book looks at the affective addresses of two technologically-innovative periods of film history, the widescreen revolution in the mid-1950s and the digitization of the cinema in the late 1990s to explore the different notions of spectatorial embodiment that these technologies provide, ranging from the immersive participation of the widescreen era to the relative disembodiment of the fragmented and alienated spectator in the digital era. Rogers has made an important intervention in the on-going discussions of spectatorship and embodiment in the cinema that will determine the direction of future scholarship in those fields. -- John Belton, Rutgers University Ariel Rogers's fascinating book looks at the affective addresses of technologically-innovative periods in film history to explore the different notions of spectatorial embodiment these technologies provide, from the immersive participation of the widescreen era to the relative disembodiment of the fragmented and alienated spectator in the digital era. She has made an important intervention in the ongoing discussions of spectatorship and embodiment in the cinema that will determine the direction of future scholarship in those fields. -- John Belton, Rutgers University Author InformationAriel Rogers is assistant professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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