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Author:   Julie A. Turnock
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9780231163538

ISBN 10:   0231163533
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 February 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Before 1977 1. Optical Animation: Special Effects Compositing Up to 1977 2. Before Industrial Light and Magic: The Independent Hollywood Special Effects Business, 1968-1975 Part II: Circa 1977: Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind 3. The Expanded Blockbuster: The Auteurist Aesthetics of 1970s Special Effects-Driven Filmmaking 4. The Buck Stops at Opticals : Special Effects Technology on Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind 5. A More Plastic Reality: The Design and Conception of Star Wars and West Coast Experimental Filmmaking 6. More Philosopical Grey Matter : The Production and Aesthetic of Close Encounters of the Third Kind Part III: The 1980s and Beyond 7. Optical Special Effects into the 1980s: A Well-Oiled Machine 8. Not-too-Realistic and Intensified Realistic Approaches in the 1980s: Traditional Stop Motion and Showscan Conclusion: World-Building and the Legacy of 1970s Special Effects in Contemporary Cinema Notes Bibliography Index

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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

Author Information

Julie A. Turnock is assistant professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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