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Hidden in plain sight : an archaeology of magic and the cinema / Colin Williamson.
LIBRA TR858 .W63 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williamson, Colin, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Techniques of the moving image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trick cinematography--History.
- Trick cinematography.
- Cinematography--Special effects--History.
- Cinematography.
- Magic tricks in motion pictures.
- Cinematography--Special effects.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 229 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introduction : watching closely
- (De)mystifying tricks : the wonder response and the emergence of the cinema
- Quicker than the eye : science, cinema, and the question of vision
- Second sight : time lapse and the cinema as seer
- The enchanted screen : performing the cinema's illusion of life
- Digital prestidigitation : the eclipse of the cinema's mechanical magic
- Through digital eyes : reanimating early cinema
- Conclusion : other obscurities and illuminations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813572543
- 0813572541
- 9780813572536
- 0813572533
- OCLC:
- 904227372
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