02722nam 22005893u 450 991081743220332120240516155924.0(CKB)2670000000241361(EBL)909197(OCoLC)818856865(MiAaPQ)EBC909197(EXLCZ)99267000000024136120130418d2005|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Special Effects[electronic resource] Still in Search of WonderNew York Columbia University Press20051 online resource (243 p.)Film and Culture SeriesFilm and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-12563-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-225) and index.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 StrikesAn Aesthetics of ScarcityThe Public Life of Numbers; CONCLUSION: The Transnational Matrix of SF; Notes; Bibliography; IndexDesigned 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 like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic PaFilm and Culture SeriesCinematographyCinematography -- Special effectsHistory and criticismScience fictionScience fiction filmsScience fiction films -- History and criticismSpecial effectsCinematography.Cinematography -- Special effects.History and criticism.Science fiction.Science fiction films.Science fiction films -- History and criticism.Special effects.791.43/615791.43024791.43615Pierson Michele777987AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910817432203321Special Effects4055562UNINA