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The paper reviews how widescreen, CinemaScope, digital cinema, and 3D technologies have shaped audience experience, highlighting debates over embodiment, intersubjectivity, immediacy, intimacy, and erasure. The authors conceptualize 3D cinema’s appeal by identifying points of convergence between historical and contemporary perspectives. The paper includes a list of illustrations, acknowledgments, and an introduction titled “Moving Machines.”.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Moving Machines1. Smothered in Baked Alaska: The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema2. East of Eden in CinemaScope: Intimacy Writ Large3. Digital Cinema's Heterogeneous Appeal: Debates on Embodiment, Intersubjectivity, and Immediacy4. Awe and Aggression: The Experience of Erasure in The Phantom Menace and The Celebration5. Points of Convergence: Conceptualizing the Appeal of 3D Cinema Then and NowNotesSelected BibliographyIndex