ABSTRACT This article investigates a new cinematic spatial dialectics enabled by digital special effects. Focusing on blockbuster films from a range of genres (martial arts, disaster, comic-book, and science-fiction films), it approaches digitally enhanced “verticality” as a mode of cinematic representation designed to exploit the visual pleasures of power and powerlessness.

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2006
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