Special Effects

New Histories, Theories, Contexts

Dan North, Bob Rehak, Michael Duffy

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BFI Publishing
07 July 2015

Film theory & criticism; Film movie guides & reviews; Film movie production: technical skills

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers.

Gathering leading voices in cinema and new media studies, this comprehensive anthology moves beyond questions of spectacle to examine special effects from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film and the Golden Age of Hollywood, to our contemporary transmedia landscape.

Wide-ranging and accessible, this book illuminates and interrogates the vast array of techniques film has used throughout its history to conjure spectacular images, mediate bodies, map worlds and make meanings.

Foreword by Scott Bukatman, with an Afterword by Lev Manovich.

By: Dan North, Bob Rehak, Michael Duffy
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 517g
ISBN: 9781844575176
ISBN 10: 1844575179
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 07 July 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dan North is an independent scholar. He is the author of Performing Illusions: Cinema, Special Effects and the Virtual Actor (2008), and editor of Sights Unseen: Unfi nished British Films (2008). Bob Rehak is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College, USA. His work has appeared in Cinema Journal, Film Criticism, and The Cybercultures Reader (2007). Michael S. Duffy is Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Towson University, USA. His essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Volumes I and II of Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood (2011, 2015).