Special effects: still in search of wonder by Michele Pierson

Special effects: still in search of wonder



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Special effects: still in search of wonder Michele Pierson
Language: English
Page: 242
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0231125623, 9780231125628
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Review

It is something of a cliché to think of special effects as 'movie magic,' but Pierson helps us to understand the substance behind that cliché, tracing our current fascination with computer-generated imagery back to discourses about magic and popular science in the late nineteenth century. Much as these earlier magicians helped to excite public interest and shape popular perceptions of emerging technologies, Pierson shows how CGI has become one of the most visible aspects of the digital revolution and how effects-laden films have often sought to examine their own precarious position somewhere between simulation and reality.

(Henry Jenkins, Director, Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participator )

Intriguing.... This is not a 'nuts and bolts'history of onscreen magic, but a specific analysis of the 'cultural reception'that visual effects have enjoyed throughout the history of cinema.

(American Cinematographer )

[A] ground-breaking book... Pierson's journey through the history of special effects offers us an important new perspective which has previously been left out of cinema-related academia and formal criticism.

(John McGowan-Hartmann Senses of Cinema )

About the Author

Michele Pierson is lecturer in film studies and visual culture at the University of Queensland, Australia.

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