[Philip Lelyveld comment: this article describes the work of a film criticism professor.]

[Guardian]

…  In the context of funding cuts to academia and questions over “Mickey Mouse degrees”, Weetch admits he does face accusations that the films he studies are “not exactly serious or particularly highbrow.” But that, he says, “presumes that 3D can’t contribute to films that are concerned with characters and ideas, which I’d attribute to ignorance and snobbery. Tintin, The Hole in 3D, and Kung-Fu Panda 2 all contain psychoanalytic sequences where characters retreat mentally into their past, and 3D layering expressively portrays the inner workings of their minds.”

Read the full story here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/nov/21/3d-cinema-television-film-tintin?newsfeed=true