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School of Languages, Linguistics and Film

3D Cinema: Digital Space and Stereoscopic Aesthetics

Module code: FLM7203

Credits: 30.00

This module examines the historical development, technological conditions and unique aesthetics of stereoscopic 3D cinema. It fosters a critical understanding of the distinct optical properties of this exhibition technology, and uses the tools of film archaeology to explore its place in the visual culture of the last two hundred years (a place consistently under-valued in both histories and theories of cinema). Providing an overview of stereoscopic media - from the nineteenth-century stereoscope to genre cinema of t520457he 1950s and 1980s - the module focuses upon the contemporary digital period of mainstream 3D film production; in doing so, it shows that digital 3D works to produce distinctly contingent, ephemeral and subjective spaces, and explores how these spaces join up with broader virtualisations of space in the digital age.

Level: 7

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