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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821165603321

Autore

Willis Holly

Titolo

Fast forward : the future(s) of the cinematic arts / / Holly Willis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Wallflower Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-231-85097-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Disciplina

791.4509

Soggetti

Motion pictures and television

Mass media and language

Motion picture industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The State of Things -- Chapter 1. Past, Present, Future: Situating Post-Cinema -- Chapter 2. New Practices / New Paradigms -- Chapter 3. Live Cinema -- Chapter 4. Urban Screens / Screened Urbanism -- Chapter 5. Books to Watch, Films to Read, Stories to Touch: New Interfaces for Storytelling -- Chapter 6. Virtual Reality and the Networked Self -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the twentieth century, is being reconfigured by new media in the twenty-first. Terms such as "worldbuilding," "virtual reality," and "transmedia" introduce new methods for constructing a screenplay and experiencing and sharing a story. Similarly, 3D cinematography, hypercinema, and visual effects require different modes for composing an image, and virtual technology, motion capture, and previsualization completely rearrange the traditional flow of cinematic production. What does this mean for telling stories? Fast Forward answers this question by investigating a full range of contemporary creative practices dedicated to the future of mediated storytelling and by connecting with a new generation of filmmakers, screenwriters, technologists, media artists, and designers to discover how they work now, and toward what end. From Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin's exploration of VR spherical filmmaking to Rebeca



Méndez's projection and installation work exploring climate change to the richly mediated interactive live performances of the collective Cloud Eye Control, this volume captures a moment of creative evolution and sets the stage for imagining the future of the cinematic arts.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910763590903321

Titolo

Advanced Ceramics / / edited by Shadia Jamil Ikhmayies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-43918-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 pages)

Collana

Advances in Material Research and Technology, , 2662-477X

Disciplina

666

Soggetti

Perovskite (Mineral)

Ceramic materials

Nanotechnology

Nanoelectromechanical systems

Biophysics

Nanoscience

Perovskites

Ceramics

Nanoscale Design, Synthesis and Processing

Nanoscale Devices

Nanoscale Biophysics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Historical background of ceramics -- 2. Introductory remarks on ceramics -- 3. Classification of ceramics -- 4. Ceramics Processing -- 5. Novel processing ceramic techniques -- 6. Properties of Ceramics.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the fundamentals of advanced ceramics, their stages of development, types and classifications, advanced processing techniques, properties, sintering, and new forms of applications. It highlights specific examples such as alumina, zirconia, Mg-Al-spinels,



silicon carbide, silicon nitride, ceramic composites, and thin films with their specific applications. The book reviews progress in perovskite ceramics, in which the synthesis, processing, characterization, and advanced applications of perovskite ceramics are all thoroughly discussed. In addition, developments of perovskite solar cells, the main factors affecting their stability, current problems, development prospects in the research, and application of perovskite solar cells are all highlighted. This book also includes a review of a particular class of rare-earth-based mixed-metal oxides, namely Ln2B2O7 nanostructures (B = Zr, Sn, and Ce), where advantages and disadvantages of each production technique are addressed along with the properties of as-produced nanostructures. The solar photocatalytic uses of Ln2B2O7 nanostructures such as photodegradation of contaminants are also discussed. Yttria-based transparent ceramics for photonic applications are reviewed, along with a discussion of powder synthesis, green body preparation, sintering, and optical properties. In addition, the fundamentals of electrophoretic deposition of hydroxyapatite incorporated composite coatings on metallic substrates are presented and discussed. The different types of ceramics-based self-healing coatings and their fabrication processes have also been reported and discussed in this book. These include titania, zirconia, titanium-alumina, and zirconia-alumina incorporated with Benzotriazole (BTA) as an inhibitor. Advanced ceramic materials that have been used for the purpose of wastewater treatment including ceramic sorbents, resins, aerosols, and ceramic membranes that have been widely used for wastewater treatment purposes are also discussed in depth. Moreover, the book presents the preparation of geopolymers by microwave treatments and explains how their properties can be tuned using microwaves. Furthermore, the future and perspective of these advanced ceramic materials and their modifications to ensure better efficacy toward environmental remediation purposes are highlighted in this book.