Tag: James Cameron
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New Zealand: Like Lord of the Rings
One of the running gags in Flight of the Conchords, the sitcom about the eponymous ‘novelty music’ duo from New Zealand, who are trying to make it in New York, is that the office walls belonging to their manager Murray Hewitt, the deputy cultural attaché at the New Zealand embassy, are decorated with posters diffidently promoting…
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The normativity of 3D: cinematic journeys, unchained cameras and imperial visuality
This is a new article I’ve just had published in the free online journal, JumpCut: A Review of Contemporary Media. It’s an analysis of the emergent formal and ideological conventions of the current wave of digital 3D cinema, using Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) and the cave-diving thriller Sanctum (Grierson, 2010) as the key case studies.
Bruce Bennett 