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Special Effects : Still in Search of Wonder / Michele Pierson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film and Culture SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 9 photosContent type:
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  • 9780231125628
  • 9780231500807
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/615 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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