Umfang:
1 online resource (383 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780231535274
Serie:
Film and Culture Series
Inhalt:
Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Before 1977 -- 1. Optical Animation: Special Effects Compositing Up to 1977 -- 2. Before Industrial Light and Magic: The Independent Hollywood Special Effects Business, 1968-1975 -- Part II: Circa 1977: Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- 3. The Expanded Blockbuster: The Auteurist Aesthetics of 1970s Special Effects-Driven Filmmaking -- 4. "The Buck Stops at Opticals": Special Effects Technology on Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- 5. A More Plastic Reality: The Design and Conception of Star Wars and West Coast Experimental Filmmaking -- 6. "More Philosopical Grey Matter": The Production and Aesthetic of Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- Part III: The 1980s and Beyond -- 7. Optical Special Effects into the 1980s: A Well-Oiled Machine -- 8. "Not-too-Realistic" and Intensified Realistic Approaches in the 1980s: Traditional Stop Motion and Showscan -- Conclusion: World-Building and the Legacy of 1970s Special Effects in Contemporary Cinema -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Turnock, Julie Plastic Reality New York : Columbia University Press,c2015 ISBN 9780231163538
Sprache:
Englisch
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