Special Effects on the Screen : : Faking the View from Méliès to Motion Capture /

Special Effects on the Screen : : Faking the View from Méliès to Motion Capture / / ed. by Martin Lefebvre, Marc Furstenau.

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Since the very first days of cinema, audiences have marveled at the special effects imagery presented on movie screens. While long relegated to the margins of film studies, special effects have recently become the object of a burgeoning field of scholarship. With the emergence of a digital cinema, a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Albera, François,
Andrew, Dudley,
Belton, John,
Bergstrom, Janet,
Crafton, Donald,
Cubitt, Sean,
Furstenau, Marc,
Jost, François,
Kessler, Frank,
Lefebvre, Martin,
Lenk, Sabine,
Liandrat-Guigues, Suzanne,
Loew, Katharina,
Marion, Philippe,
Odin, Roger,
Turquety, Benoît,
Whissel, Kristen,
HerausgeberIn:
Furstenau, Marc,
Lefebvre, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Cinema and Technology
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Physical Description:1 online resource (518 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Concepts
  • 1. Mind(ing) the Gap
  • 2. Images as Visual Effects
  • 3. The Pragmatics of Trucage: Between Feigning and Fiction
  • 4. Realism, Illusion, and Special Effects in the Cinema
  • Techniques
  • 5. .Trick-o-logics 1810/1910: The Magic of Tricks and Special Effects Between: the Stage and the Screen
  • 6. Those Ordinary “Special Effects”
  • 7. Black Magic: The “Space Between the Frames” in Cinematic Special Effects
  • 8. Photography and the Composite Image , or A Portrait of Méliès as Bergsonian Filmmaker
  • 9. From Trick to Special Effect : Standardization and the Rise of Imperceptible Cinematic Illusions
  • 10. Special Effects and Spaces of Communication: A Semio-Pragmatic Approach
  • 11. Image Capture, or The Control of Special Effects
  • Films
  • 12. Murnau’s Sunrise: In-Camera Effects and Effects Specialists
  • 13. King Kong, An Open Perspective
  • 14. Uncanny Visual Effects, Postwar Modernity, and House of Wax 3D
  • 15. Oblivion: Of Time and Special Effects
  • Envoi
  • 16. The Effect of Miracles and the Miracle of Effects : Bazin’s Faith in Evolution
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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