Tag: Spielberg
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The lost worlds of silent cinema.
A real pleasure this weekend to attend the ‘Silents by the Sea’ film festival put on by the Northern Silents organisation at the Winter Gardens Pavilion in Morecambe, a grand variety theatre built in the 1890s, and currently undergoing restoration. It’s a particularly apt setting since some of the films screened over the weekend may…
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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 