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A delightfully bizarre journey through lavish special-effects environments from 1550 to the present, this history of illusionism indicates how the Renaissance and early Baroque artists pioneered the interactive, the cinematic, and even the digital. Klein argues that modern special effect have a unique grammar, as precise as the rules of film, theater and music; he then reviews its syntax and demonstrates how special effects are a barometer for politics, myths of identity and economic relations. Finally, Klein uses these instructive parallels to explain where our special-effects civilization may be heading next.

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Norman Klein is full of ideas, brilliantly and beautifully expressed.

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Norman Klein is a cultural critic, media and urban historian. He is the author of The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory, Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon, and Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986. He is a professor at the California Institute of the Arts and has taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SciArc). He lives in Los Angeles.

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