{"product_id":"spaces-mapped-and-monstrous-nick-jones-9780231194235","title":"Spaces Mapped and Monstrous: Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eDigital 3D has become a core feature of the twenty-first-century visual landscape. Yet 3D cinema is a contradictory media form: producing spaces that are highly regimented and exhaustively detailed, it simultaneously relies upon distortions of vision and space that are inherently strange. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpaces Mapped and Monstrous\u003c\/i\u003e explores the paradoxical nature of 3D cinema to offer a critical analysis of an inescapable part of contemporary culture. Considering 3D's distinctive visual qualities and its connections to wider digital systems, Nick Jones situates the production and exhibition of 3D cinema within a web of aesthetic, technological, and historical contexts. He examines 3D's relationship with computer interfaces, virtual reality, and digital networks as well as tracing its lineage to predigital models of visual organization. Jones emphasizes that 3D is not only a technology used in films but also a tool for producing, controlling, and distorting space within systems of surveillance, corporatization, and militarization. The book features detailed analysis of a wide range of films--including \u003ci\u003eAvatar\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to Language\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eLove\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), and \u003ci\u003eClash of the Titans\u003c\/i\u003e (2010)--demonstrating that 3D is not merely an augmentation of 2D cinema but that it has its own unique properties. \u003ci\u003eSpaces Mapped and Monstrous\u003c\/i\u003e brings together media archaeology, digital theory, and textual analysis to provide a new account of the importance of 3D to visual culture today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231194234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231194235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Nick Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443307458815,"sku":"9780231194235","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_87c15110-7f8a-4849-b24c-2368a2d34881.jpg?v=1777204628","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spaces-mapped-and-monstrous-nick-jones-9780231194235","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}