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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

North, Dan, editor.

Rehak, Bob, editor.

Duffy, Michael S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cinematography--Special effects.

Cinematography.

Cinematography--Special effects--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Palgrave, 2015.

Summary:

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers. Gathering leading voices in cinema and new media studies, this comprehensive anthology moves beyond questions of spectacle to examine special effects from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film and the Golden Age of Hollywood, to our contemporary transmedia landscape. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book illuminates and interrogates the vast array of techniques film has used throughout its history to conjure spectacular images, mediate bodies, map worlds and make meanings. Foreword by Scott Bukatman, with an Afterword by Lev Manovich.

Contents:

Cover

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION

1 TECHNIQUES

ECTOPLASM AND OIL METHOCEL AND THE AESTHETICS OF SPECIAL EFFECTS

FLESHING IT OUT PROSTHETIC MAKEUP EFFECTS, MOTION CAPTURE AND THE RECEPTION OF PERFORMANCE

MAGIC MIRRORS THE SCHÜFFTAN PROCESS

PHOTOREALISM, NOSTALGIA AND STYLE MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF FILM IN DIGITAL VISUAL EFFECTS

2 BODIES

BLEEDING SYNTHETIC BLOOD FLESH AND SIMULATED SPACE IN 300

BLACKFACE, HAPPY FEET THE POLITICS OF RACE IN MOTION CAPTURE AND ANIMATION1

BEING GEORGES MÉLIÈS

THE BATTLEFIELD FOR THE SOUL SPECIAL EFFECTS AND THE POSSESSED BODY

BAROQUE FAÇADES JEFF BRIDGES'S FACE AND TRON: LEGACY

GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PRACTICAL AND DIGITAL NATURE

3 SCREENS

DIGITAL 3D, TECHNOLOGICAL AUTEURISM AND THE RHETORIC OF CINEMATIC REVOLUTION

SHOOTING STARS CHESLEY BONESTELL AND THE SPECIAL EFFECTS OF OUTER SPACE

DESIGNED FOR EVERYONE WHO LOOKS FORWARD TO TOMORROW! STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND AND 1970s OPTIMISTIC FUTURISM

THE RIGHT STUFF? HANDMADE SPECIAL EFFECTS IN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL FILM

INCEPTION'S TIMESPACES AN ECOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY

AFTERWORD A CONVERSATION WITH LEV MANOVICH

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 20, 2016).

ISBN:

9781838718312

1838718311

9781844579037

1844579034

9781844579044

1844579042

OCLC:

1039700791