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Author Pierson, Michele.

Title Special effects : still in search of wonder / Michele Pierson.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations.
Series Film and culture
Film and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-225) and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: Special Effects and the Popular Media; 1. Magic, Science, Art: Before Cinema; Natural Magic; Science Fictions; Scientific American; Millennial Magic; 2. From Cult-Classicism to Technofuturism: Converging on Wired Magazine; The Limits of Convergence; Photon and Stop-Motion Animation; Corporate Futurism/Technofuturism; Home Production; 3. The Wonder Years and Beyond: 1989-1995; On Genre; Reinventing the Cinema of Attractions; Digital Art Effects; Retrofuture/Retrovision; 4. Crafting a Future for CGI; The Case of Editing; Disaster Strikes.
An Aesthetics of ScarcityThe Public Life of Numbers; 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 Pa.
Subject Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
Science fiction.
Cinematography -- Special effects.
Cinematography.
Science fiction films.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Cinematography -- Special effects. (OCoLC)fst00861506
Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01108566
Science fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01108616
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Pierson, Michele. Special effects. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002 0231125623 (DLC) 2001055263 (OCoLC)48397478
ISBN 0231500807 (electronic bk.)
9780231500807 (electronic bk.)
Music No. EB00662144 Recorded Books
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