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Special effects : new histories/theories/contexts / edited by Dan North, Bob Rehak, Michael S. Duffy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : On behalf of British Film Institute, 2015.Description: xvi, 283 p. : ill. ; 24cmISBN:
  • 9781844575183
  • 1844575187
  • 9781844575176
  • 1844575179
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 778.5345
LOC classification:
  • TR 858 S741 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Techniques. Ectoplasm and oil / Ethan de Seife ; Fleshing it out / Lisa Bode ; (Stop)motion control / Andrea Comiskey ; Magic mirrors / Katharina Loew ; Photorealism, nostalgia and style / Barbara Flueckiger -- Bodies. Bleeding synthetic blood / Drew Ayers ; Blackface, Happy feet / Tanine Allison ; Being Georges Méliès / Dan North ; The battlefield for the soul / Stacey Abbott ; Baroque façades / Angela Ndalianis ; Guillermo del Toro's practical and digital nature / Michael S. Duffy -- Screens. Digital 3D, technological autuerism and the rhetoric of cinematic revolution / Chuck Tryon ; Shooting stars / Bob Rehak ; Designed for everyone who looks forward to tomorrow! / Julie Turnock ; The right stuff? / Gregory Zinman ; 'Don't you mean extinct?' / Oliver Gaycken ; Inception's timespaces / Aylish Wood ; Afterword : A conversation with Lev Manovich / Dan North.
Summary: Gathering established and emerging voices in cinema and media studies, this comprehensive collection of essays examines special effects as objects and practices in multiple historical and theoretical contexts - from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film and the golden age of Hollywood studios, to our contemporary transmedia landscape
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Techniques. Ectoplasm and oil / Ethan de Seife ; Fleshing it out / Lisa Bode ; (Stop)motion control / Andrea Comiskey ; Magic mirrors / Katharina Loew ; Photorealism, nostalgia and style / Barbara Flueckiger -- Bodies. Bleeding synthetic blood / Drew Ayers ; Blackface, Happy feet / Tanine Allison ; Being Georges Méliès / Dan North ; The battlefield for the soul / Stacey Abbott ; Baroque façades / Angela Ndalianis ; Guillermo del Toro's practical and digital nature / Michael S. Duffy -- Screens. Digital 3D, technological autuerism and the rhetoric of cinematic revolution / Chuck Tryon ; Shooting stars / Bob Rehak ; Designed for everyone who looks forward to tomorrow! / Julie Turnock ; The right stuff? / Gregory Zinman ; 'Don't you mean extinct?' / Oliver Gaycken ; Inception's timespaces / Aylish Wood ; Afterword : A conversation with Lev Manovich / Dan North.

Gathering established and emerging voices in cinema and media studies, this comprehensive collection of essays examines special effects as objects and practices in multiple historical and theoretical contexts - from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film and the golden age of Hollywood studios, to our contemporary transmedia landscape

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