3-D Revolution: The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema

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

• | Author: Ray Zone
• | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 456 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0813136113
• | ISBN-13: 9780813136110