Coming at you! 3-D Studies

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Film Studies For Free brings you a very rounded links list today on the terribly topical subject of 3-D cinema and other media.

It's a big subject area, encompassing debates on and research about film realism, media industry history, film technology (practice and theory), film spectatorship and reception, and human/media interactivity. If you want a good place to begin before you start dipping into the list below, check out the following, excellent, Wikipedia entries on 3-D film, stereoscopy and 3D audio effect.

• Jay David Bolter, 'Digital Media and Cinematic Point of View',Telepolis (14.02.1997)

• David Bordwell, 'Coraline, cornered', Observations on Film Art, February 23, 2009

• David Cairns, ''Excelsior! [on Up]', Shadowplay, October 19, 2009

• Tobey Crockett, 'Building a Bridge to the Aesthetic Experience: Artistic Virtual Environments and Other Interactive Digital Art', Intelligent Agent, 5.1., 2005
  

• Glorianna Davenport and Brian Bradley, 'Everyone's Cinema: Towards the Future of Cinematics', Oberhausen Film Festival - April 28, 1997
  

• Roger Ebert, 'D-Minus for 3-D', Chicago Sun-TImes, August 16, 2008

• Dana Goodyear, 'Man of Extremes: The Return of James Cameron', The New Yorker, October 2009

• John Hayes, '“You see them WITH glasses!”… A Short History of 3D Movies', Wide Screen Movies Magazine, Part One: The 1800s to the 1950s, February 1, 2009

• Jan Holmberg, 'Ideals of Immersion in Early Cinema, Cinémas : revue d'études cinématographiques / Cinémas: Journal of Film Studies, vol. 14, n° 1, 2003, p. 129- 147
  

• Mike Jones, 'Composing Space: Cinema and Computer Gaming - The Macro-Mise en Scene and Spatial Composition', Imaginary Worlds: Image and Space International Symposium, Sydney, 14 October 2005

• Pete Kozachik, '2 Worlds in 3 Dimensions [on Coraline]', The American Cinematographer, February 2009
  

• Harold A. Layer, 'Stereoscopy: Where Did It Come From? Where Will It Lead?', updated version published originally in: EXPOSURE: 17:3 Fall 1979
  

• Lenny Lipton, 'The Last Great Innovation: The Stereoscopic Cinema', SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, November/December 2007

• María Lorenzo Hernández, 'The Double Sense of Animated Images. A View on the Paradoxes of Animation as a Visual Language', Animation Studies, January 27, 2008
  

• Lev Manovich, 'Global Algorithm 1.3: The Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds: Report From Los Angeles', CTheory.net, May 1996

• Lev Manovich, 'Assembling Reality: Myths of Computer Graphics', manovich.net, 1992

• Lev Manovich, 'Synthetic Realism and its Discontents', manovich.net, 1992, revised 1999

• Mekado Murphy, ''Buzz and Woody add a dimension', The New York Times, October 4, 2009 (plus related audio interview with Toy Story director Jon Lasseter here)

• Angela Ndalianis, 'Architectures of Vision: Neo-Baroque Optical Regimes and Contemporary Entertainment Media', MIT Communications Forum, December 19, 1999
  

• Michael Nitsche, 'Games, Montage, and the First Person Point of View', Digital Games Research Association, 2007

• Dan North, 'Toy Story 3D', Spectacular Attractions, October 9, 2009

• Dan North, 'Magnificent Bodyguards: Jackie Chan in 3D, 1978', Spectacular Attractions, July 20, 2009

• Per Persson, 'Chapter 1: Understanding and Dispositions', Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery (Cambridge University Press, 2003

• Seth Porges, 'Are 3D Movies Finally Ready for Their High-Tech Close-up?', Popular Mechanics, July 21, 2008

• Bob Rehak, 'Titles on the Fringe', Graphic Engine, September 12, 2008

• Paolo Teobaldelli, 'Cinema and Special Effects Seen From a Non- Dual Based Approach to Communication', Applied Semiotics, No. 14, 2004
  

• Kristin Thompson, 'Has 3-D already failed?', Observations on Film Art, September 17, 2009

• HarryTuttle, ‘You’ve Never Seen Anything Like This on Television!’ CNN’s Election Night Hologram', Rouge, 13, April 2007
  

• Todd VanDerWeff, 'A Pixar Week Compendium', The House Next Door, October 11, 2009

• Gary De Wan, '3D', originally published Motion Picture Projectionist, February 1954, republished Wide Screen Movies Magazine, October 7, 2007
  

• Ke Colin Zheng et al, 'Parallax Photography: Creating 3D Cinematic Effects from Stills', Graphics Interface 2009
  

• Ray Zone's The 3-D Zone website

• Ray Zone, Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952 (University Press of Kentucky, 2007: Google Books - Limited Preview)

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