What happens when cinema goes digital? More precisely: what happens when the body of cinema becomes technological and it expands beyond the screen frame (3D)?Digital cinema, especially in its 3D version, seems to follow two paths: 1. an exasperated realism where digital is meant to build up a reality effect; 2. an actualized oneiric state where digital is meant to create dreamlike settings binding emotions to vision. This work is aimed to study this two directions taken by cinema, especially the 3D one, in the latest film production: Inception, Avatar by James Cameron (2009), Hugo Cabret by Martin Scorsese (2011) and Life of Pi by Ang Lee (2012), supported by some Media Theory basic authors as Lev Manovich and Marshall McLuhan.
Digital cinema and 3D effect between extreme realism and actualized oneiric
D'AMICO, ERIKA
2013
Abstract
What happens when cinema goes digital? More precisely: what happens when the body of cinema becomes technological and it expands beyond the screen frame (3D)?Digital cinema, especially in its 3D version, seems to follow two paths: 1. an exasperated realism where digital is meant to build up a reality effect; 2. an actualized oneiric state where digital is meant to create dreamlike settings binding emotions to vision. This work is aimed to study this two directions taken by cinema, especially the 3D one, in the latest film production: Inception, Avatar by James Cameron (2009), Hugo Cabret by Martin Scorsese (2011) and Life of Pi by Ang Lee (2012), supported by some Media Theory basic authors as Lev Manovich and Marshall McLuhan.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
