3-D Revolution [electronic resource] : The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema /
Zone, Ray.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
2012.
Stereoscopic cinema began in the early 19th century and exploded in the 1950s in Hollywood. Its status as an enduring genre was confirmed in 2009 by the success of 3-D movie 'Avatar'.
Electronic reproduction.
Front Cover; Frontispiece; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue: The Epochs of 3-D; Part i: The Era of Convergence, 1952-1985; Chapter 1: Bwana Devil; Chapter 2: Dual-Band Cameras; Chapter 3: Converging in Time; Chapter 4: Deep Black and White; Chapter 5: 3-D Filmmakers and the Critics; Chapter 6: Wider, Not Deeper; Chapter 7: Single-Strip 3-D Systems; Chapter 8: The Porno Boys; Chapter 9: 1980s 3-D Films; Chapter 10: 3-D at Home; Part II: The Immersive Age, 1986-2005; Chapter 11: 4-D and the Ride Film; Chapter 12: Creating 3-D for Theme Parks; Chapter 13: The World of IMAX 3-D
Chapter 14: A Large-Format 3-D Journey; Chapter 15: Stereoscopic Outer Space; Chapter 16: Big-Screen 3-D Dinosaurs; Chapter 17: Large-Format Stereo Conversion; Chapter 18: Speeding into 3-D; Chapter 19: Riding on Digits; Chapter 20: The Polar Express in IMAX 3-D; Part III: Digital 3-D Cinema, 2005-2009; Chapter 21: Two Anaglyph Movies; Chapter 22: Threshold of the Future; Chapter 23: Digital 3-D Cinema Begins; Chapter 24: Meet the Robinsons; Chapter 25: Rebuilding the Z-axis; Chapter 26: Digital Live Action 3-D; Chapter 27: Aliens and Superpowers; Chapter 28: Immersed in Coraline
Chapter 29: Two 3-D FIlms by Robert Zemeckis; Chapter 30: Digital 3-D Horrors; Chapter 31: Perceptual Paradoxes; Chapter 32: Cute and Fuzzy Dinosaurs; Chapter 33: An Interview with Rob Engle; Chapter 34: Brave New 3-D World; Epilogue: Now Is the Time; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Stereoscopic cinema began in the early 19th century and exploded in the 1950s in Hollywood. Its status as an enduring genre was confirmed in 2009 by the success of 3-D movie 'Avatar'.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.