TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pierson,Michele
TI  - Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder 
T2  - Film and Culture Series
SN  - 9780231125628
U1  - 791.43/615 21
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Cinematography -- Special effects
KW  - Science fiction films -- History and criticism
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Special Effects and the Popular Media --; 1. Magic, Science, Art --; 2. From Cult-Classicism to Technofuturism --; 3. The Wonder Years and Beyond --; 4. Crafting a Future for CGI --; Conclusion: The Transnational Matrix of SF --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have been marveled at by millions, this is the first investigation of their broader cultural reception. Moving from an exploration of nineteenth-century popular science and magic to the Hollywood science fiction cinema of our time, Special Effects examines the history, advancements, and connoisseurship of special effects, asking what makes certain types of cinematic effects special, why this matters, and for whom. Michele Pierson shows how popular science magazines, genre filmzines, and computer lifestyle magazines have articulated an aesthetic criticism of this emerging art form and have helped shape how these hugely popular on-screen technological wonders have been viewed by moviegoers
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/pier12562
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231500807
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231500807/original
ER  -