|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910817432203321 |
|
|
Autore |
Pierson Michele |
|
|
Titolo |
Special Effects [[electronic resource] ] : Still in Search of Wonder |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York, : Columbia University Press, 2005 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (243 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Film and Culture Series |
Film and culture |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
791.43/615 |
791.43024 |
791.43615 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Cinematography |
Cinematography -- Special effects |
History and criticism |
Science fiction |
Science fiction films |
Science fiction films -- History and criticism |
Special effects |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-225) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Special Effects and the Popular Media; 1. Magic, Science, Art: Before Cinema; Natural Magic; Science Fictions; Scientific American; Millennial Magic; 2. From Cult-Classicism to Technofuturism: Converging on Wired Magazine; The Limits of Convergence; Photon and Stop-Motion Animation; Corporate Futurism/Technofuturism; Home Production; 3. The Wonder Years and Beyond: 1989-1995; On Genre; Reinventing the Cinema of Attractions; Digital Art Effects; Retrofuture/Retrovision; 4. Crafting a Future for CGI; The Case of Editing; Disaster Strikes |
An Aesthetics of ScarcityThe Public Life of Numbers; CONCLUSION: The Transnational Matrix of SF; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters |
|
|
|
|