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Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder Hardback - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Michele Pierson

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Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have been marveled at by millions, this is the first investigation of their broader cultural reception. Moving from an exploration of nineteenth-century popular science and magic to the Hollywood science fiction cinema of our time, Special Effects examines the history, advancements, and connoisseurship of special effects, asking what makes certain types of cinematic effects special, why this matters, and for whom. Michele Pierson shows how popular science magazines, genre filmzines, and computer lifestyle magazines have articulated an aesthetic criticism of this emerging art form and have helped shape how these hugely popular on-screen technological wonders have been viewed by moviegoers.

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  • Title Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder
  • Author Michele Pierson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Publication date 2002-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780231125628 / 0231125623
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.74 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.88 cm)
  • Age range 22 to UP years
  • Grade levels 17 - UP
  • Reading level 1780
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Cinematography - Special effects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001055263
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

About the author

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