Abstract

PEREZ-GOMEZ, Miguel Ángel  and  EXPOSITO-BAREA, Milagros. Low-budget Cinematic Immersion: Content Analysis of William Castle’s Gimmick Cycle. Palabra Clave [online]. 2023, vol.26, n.3, e2635.  Epub Sep 01, 2023. ISSN 0122-8285.  https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2023.26.3.5.

This article studies the origins of 4D cinema through William Castle’s gimmick cycle between 1958 and 1967. Castle’s films are located at the crossroads of the fifties when exhibition technologies underwent changes that sought to distance themselves from television through spectacularity: screen enlargement, stereophonic sound, or 3D films. Against this back-drop, Castle’s films are based on tricks to create a new cinematographic experience that we can call pre-immersive.

Keywords : Horror cinem; haptic cinema; immersive cinema; William Castle; 4D.

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