Special Effects [[electronic resource] ] : Still in Search of Wonder
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| Autore: |
Pierson Michele
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| Titolo: |
Special Effects [[electronic resource] ] : Still in Search of Wonder
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Columbia University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/615 |
| 791.43024 | |
| 791.43615 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Cinematography |
| Cinematography -- Special effects | |
| History and criticism | |
| Science fiction | |
| Science fiction films | |
| Science fiction films -- History and criticism | |
| Special effects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| 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 like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Pa |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Special Effects |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785516803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Film and Culture Series