The digitization of cinematic visual effects : Hollywood's coming of age / / Rama Venkatasawmy.

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:ix, 333 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • An overview of VFX-intensive filmmaking in 20th century Hollywood cinema
  • Defining the object of enquiry
  • "Effects" in Hollywood cinema
  • Science, technology and Hollywood cinema
  • The Hollywood cinema industry's coming of digital age
  • Afterword
  • Appendices: (A) A time-line of landmark (VFX-intensive) films, techno-scientific innovations, financial and industrial events that have contributed to the evolution of digital VFX in the Hollywood cinema industry up to the 1990s
  • (B) Top 100 all-time domestic grosses (2012)
  • (C) A basic glossary of analog and digital terminologies and key professions in the Hollywood cinema VFX industry.