Special effects on the screen : faking the view from Méliès to motion capture / edited by Martin Lefebvre and Marc Furstenau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lefebvre, Martin, editor.

Furstenau, Marc, 1963- editor.

Series:

Cinema and technology (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Cinema and Technology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cinematography--Special effects--History.

Cinematography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press B.V., [2022]

Summary:

Since the very first days of cinema, audiences have marveled at the special effects imagery presented on movie screens. While long relegated to the margins of film studies, special effects have recently become the object of a burgeoning field of scholarship. With the emergence of a digital cinema, and the development of computerized visual effects, film theorists and historians have been reconsidering the traditional accounts of cinematic representation, recognising the important role of special effects. Understood as a constituent part of the cinema, special effects are a major technical but also aesthetic component of filmmaking and an important part of the experience for the audience. In this volume, new directions are charted for the exploration of this indispensable aspect of the cinematic experience. Each of the essays in this collection offers new insight into the theoretical and historical study of special effects. The contributors address the many aspects of special effects, from a variety of perspectives, considering them as a conceptual problem, recounting the history of specific special effects techniques, and analysing notable effects films.

Contents:

13. King Kong, An Open Perspective

Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues

14. Uncanny Visual Effects, Postwar Modernity, and House of Wax 3D

Kristen Whissel

15. Oblivion: Of Time and Special Effects

Sean Cubitt

Envoi

16. The Effect of Miracles and the Miracle of Effects: Bazin's Faith in Evolution

Dudley Andrew

Bibliography

Index

7. Black Magic: The "Space Between the Frames" in Cinematic Special Effects

Donald Crafton

8. Photography and the Composite Image, or A Portrait of Melies as Bergsonian Filmmaker

Benoît Turquety

9. From Trick to Special Effect: Standardization and the Rise of Imperceptible Cinematic Illusions

Katharina Loew

10. Special Effects and Spaces of Communication: A Semio-Pragmatic Approach

Roger Odin

11. Image Capture, or The Control of Special Effects

Philippe Marion

Films

12. Murnau's Sunrise: In-Camera Effects and Effects Specialists

Janet Bergstrom

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction

Martin Lefebvre and Marc Furstenau

Concepts

1. Mind(ing) the Gap

Martin Lefebvre

2. Images as Visual Effects

John Belton

3. The Pragmatics of Trucage: Between Feigning and Fiction

François Jost

4. Realism, Illusion, and Special Effects in the Cinema

Marc Furstenau

Techniques

5. Trick-o-logics 1810/1910: The Magic of Tricks and Special Effects

Between the Stage and the Screen

Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk

6. Those Ordinary "Special Effects"

François Albera

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lefebvre, Martin Special Effects on the Screen

ISBN:

9789048530205

9048530202

OCLC:

1348484297