Special Effects on the Screen

Faking the View from Méliès to Motion Capture

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Edited by Martin Lefebvre and Marc Furstenau

Type

Studies

Subject

Technique > Special effects

Keywords

special effects, history of cinema

Publishing date

2022

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Collection

Cinema and Technology

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 518 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches (16 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-94-6298-073-0

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Book Presentation:
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, and the development of computerized visual effects, film theorists and historians have been reconsidering the traditional accounts of cinematic representation, recognising the important role of special effects. Understood as a constituent part of the cinema, special effects are a major technical but also aesthetic component of filmmaking and an important part of the experience for the audience. In this volume, new directions are charted for the exploration of this indispensable aspect of the cinematic experience. Each of the essays in this collection offers new insight into the theoretical and historical study of special effects. The contributors address the many aspects of special effects, from a variety of perspectives, considering them as a conceptual problem, recounting the history of specific special effects techniques, and analysing notable effects films.

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