Special Effects: New Histories, Theories, Contexts
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| Management number | 233508428 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | US$13.48 | Model Number | 233508428 | ||
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As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers. Gathering leading voices in cinema and new media studies, this comprehensive anthology moves beyond questions of spectacleto examine special effects from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film and the Golden Age of Hollywood, to ourcontemporary transmedia landscape.Wide-ranging and accessible, this book illuminates and interrogates the vast array of techniques film has used throughout its history to conjure spectacular images, mediate bodies, map worlds and make meanings. Foreword by Scott Bukatman, with an Afterword by Lev Manovich. Read more
| ASIN | B08HTZ9CGN |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-1838718312 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| File size | 15.6 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | British Film Institute |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 304 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | July 25, 2019 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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