The digitization of cinematic visual effects [[electronic resource] ] : Hollywood's coming of age / / Rama Venkatasawmy

• Autore: Venkatasawmy Rama <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.430973
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century; Cinematography - Special effects; Digital cinematography
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: An overview of VFX-intensive filmmaking in 20th century Hollywood cinema -- Defining the object of enquiry -- "Effects" in Hollywood cinema -- Science, technology and Hollywood cinema -- The Hollywood cinema industry's coming of digital age -- Afterword -- Appendices: (A) A time-line of landmark (VFX-intensive) films, techno-scientific innovations, financial and industrial events that have contributed to the evolution of digital VFX in the Hollywood cinema industry up to the 1990s -- (B) Top 100 all-time domestic grosses (2012) -- (C) A basic glossary of analog and digital terminologies and key professions in the Hollywood cinema VFX industry.
• Sommario/riassunto: While many books have addressed visual effects in Hollywood cinema, The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, fills an important gap in cinematic analysis and film history by providing a periodization and techno-historical account of visual effects in Hollywood cinema.
• Titolo autorizzato: The digitization of cinematic visual effects
• ISBN: 1-299-14901-4; 0-7391-7622-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463027703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II