Special effects : new histories/theories/contexts /: new histories/theories/contexts. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dan North, Bob Rehak, Michael S. Duffy.
• Editors: North, Dan (Dan R.); Rehak, Bob; Duffy, Michael
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Foreword; Scott Bukatman; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Bob Rehak, Dan North and Michael S. Duffy; PART 1: TECHNIQUES; 1. Ectoplasm and Oil: Methocel and the Aesthetics of Special Effects; Ethan de Seife; 2. Fleshing It Out: Prosthetic Makeup Effects, Motion Capture and the Reception of Performance; Lisa Bode; 3. (Stop)Motion Control: Special Effects in Contemporary Puppet Animation; Andrea Comiskey; 4. Magic Mirrors: The Schüfftan Process; Katharina Loew; 5. Photorealism, Nostalgia and Style: Photorealism and Material Properties of Film in Digital Visual Effects; Barbara Flueckiger; PART 2: BODIES; 6. Bleeding Synthetic Blood: Flesh and Simulated Space in 300; Drew Ayers; 7. Blackface, Happy Feet: The Politics of Race in Motion Capture and Animation; Tanine Allison; 8. Being Georges Méliès; Dan North; 9. The Battlefield for the Soul: Special Effects and the Possessed Body; Stacey Abbott; 10. Baroque Facades, Jeff Bridges' Face and Tron: Legacy; Angela Ndalianis; 11. Organic Clockwork: Guillermo del Toro's Practical and Digital Nature; Michael S. Duffy; PART 3: SCREENS; 12. Digital 3D, Technological Auteurism and the Rhetoric of Cinematic Revolution; Chuck Tryon; 13. Shooting Stars: Chesley Bonestell and the Special Effects of Outer Space; Bob Rehak; 14. Designed for Everyone Who Looks Forward to Tomorrow!: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the; 15. 1970s Expanded Blockbuster; Julie Turnock; 16. The Right Stuff?: Handmade Special Effects in Commercial and Industrial Film; Gregory Zinman; 17. 'Don't You Mean Extinct?': On the Circulation of Knowledge in Jurassic Park; Oliver Gaycken; 18. Inception's Timespaces: An Ecology of Technology; Aylish Wood; 19. Afterword: An Interview with Lev Manovich; Dan North; Index; ;
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave on behalf of the British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43024; Cinematography -- Special effects; Cinematography -- Special effects -- History; Film & Video/General; Television/General; Film, TV & radio; Television
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781844579037; 1844579034
• Related ISBNs: 9781844575176; 9781844575183
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.