3-D Revolution: The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema

By Ray Zone

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813136113
• ISBN13: 9780813136110
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up