Julie A. Turnock is assistant professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
With consummate research and clear explanations, Turnock shows how the special effects revolution actually took place before CGI and the way the blockbusters of the late sixties and seventies, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, opened the way to a new concept of cinema's relation to reality and fantasy--and how it relates to the cinema of today. -- Tom Gunning, University of Chicago and author of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity