3 D Revolution The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema 1st Edition by Ray Zone ISBN 0813136113 9780813136110

In 2009, Avatar, a 3-D movie directed by James Cameron, became the most successful motion picture of all time, a technological breakthrough that has grossed more than $2.5 billion worldwide. Its seamless computer-generated imagery and live action stereo photography effectively defined the importance of 3-D to the future of cinema, as well as all other currently evolving digital displays. Though stereoscopic cinema began in the early nineteenth century and exploded in the 1950s in Hollywood, its present status as an enduring genre was confirmed by Avatar’s success.

3-D Revolution: The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema traces the rise of modern 3-D technology from Arch Oboler’s Bwana Devil (1952), which launched the 50s 3-D boom in Hollywood, to the rapidly-modernizing 3-D industry today. Ray Zone takes a comprehensive approach that not only examines the technology of the films, but also investigates the business, culture, and art of their production. Influencing new generations of filmmakers for decades, the evolution of 3-D cinema technology continues to fill our theaters with summer blockbusters and holiday megahits.

3 D Revolution The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema 1st Table of contents:

I. The Era of Convergence, 1952–1985
1. Bwana Devil
2. Dual-Band Cameras
3. Converging in Time
4. Deep Black and White
5. 3-D Filmmakers and the Critics
6. Wider, Not Deeper
7. Single-Strip 3-D Systems
8. The Porno Boys
9. 1980s 3-D Films
10. 3-D at Home
II. The Immersive Age, 1986–2005
11. 4-D and the Ride Film
12. Creating 3-D for Theme Parks
13. The World of IMAX 3-D
14. A Large-Format 3-D Journey
15. Stereoscopic Outer Space
16. Big-Screen 3-D Dinosaurs
17. Large-Format Stereo Conversion
18. Speeding into 3-D
19. Riding on Digits
20. The Polar Express in IMAX 3-D
III. Digital 3-D Cinema, 2005–2009
21. Two Anaglyph Movies
22. Threshold of the Future
23. Digital 3-D Cinema Begins
24. Meet the Robinsons
25. Rebuilding the Z-axis
26. Digital Live-Action 3-D
27. Aliens and Superpowers
28. Immersed in Coraline
29. Two 3-D Films by Robert Zemeckis
30. Digital 3-D Horrors
31. Perceptual Paradoxes
32. Cute and Fuzzy Dinosaurs
33. An Interview with Rob Engle
34. Brave New 3-D World