Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Moving Machines 1
6. 1. “Smothered in Baked Alaska”: The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema 19
7. 2. East of Eden in CinemaScope: Intimacy Writ Large 61
8. 3. Digital Cinema’s Heterogeneous Appeal: Debates on Embodiment, Intersubjectivity, and Immediacy 91
9. 4. Awe and Aggression: The Experience of Erasure in The Phantom Menace and The Celebration 141
10. 5. Points of Convergence: Conceptualizing the Appeal of 3D Cinema Then and Now 179
11. Notes 227
12. Selected Bibliography 299
13. Index 319
14. Backmatter 331