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The normativity of 3D : cinematic journeys, 'imperial visuality', and unchained cameras

This is a substantial and comprehensive analysis of the emerging aesthetic conventions of contemporary digital 3D cinema. It is particularly current, as the discussion extends to films released in 2013, and it covers a historically and aesthetically broad range of examples extending from art cinema through low-budget exploitation films to Hollywood blockbusters. The claim made with regard to the ideological configuration of 3D style and narrative structure is original, and the article draws an innovative connection between Nicholas Mirzoeff’s work on ‘visuality’ and contemporary cinema aesthetics. The argument is supported by highly detailed close formal and thematic analysis of two key films - one of which has not been discussed in any academic writing on 3D cinema - and reference to details from numerous others. It is being published in a high-profile, peer-reviewed open-access online journal and so I would expect it will be an important contribution to academic work on 3D cinema and contemporary film aesthetics more generally.