Footnote #32 - 3D (with Nick Jones)
The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!
Fresh from their discussion of Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts, 2021), Chris, Alex and special guest Dr Nick Jones (Senior Lecturer in Film, Television and Digital Culture, University of York) return for this short Footnote episode on the marvel and magic of 3D technology. Topics include cinema’s own history of size, space, and spectacle from the Lumière brothers to James Cameron; the kinds of depth cues offered by 3D cinema that extends perception beyond the real-world; technological innovation and 3D’s default narratives of extension and protrusion; and how understanding the history of film in three-dimensions perhaps gets us closer to seeing what cinema might actually be as a creative medium.
**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**
Suggested Readings
Jones, Nick. 2020. Spaces Mapped and Monstrous: Digital 3D and Visual Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Purse, Lisa. 2013. Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Ross, Miriam. 2015. 3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weetch, Owen. 2016. Expressive Spaces in Digital 3D Cinema. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Wood, Aylish. 2015. “Intangible spaces: Three-dimensional technology in Hugo and IMAX in The Dark Knight.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 21, no. 2: 169–181.