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  • Plastic Reality

    Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics

    by Julie Turnock ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s. Beginning with the classical studio era's early approaches to special effects, she follows the industry's slow build toward the significant advances of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which set the stage for the groundbreaking ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Empire of Effects

    Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism

    by Julie A. Turnock ...
    2024 Finalist, Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award, Media Ecology AssociationHow one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism.Just about every major film now comes to us with an assist from digital effects. The results are obvious in superhero fantasies, yet dramas like Roma also rely on computer-generated imagery to enhance the verisimilitude of scenes. But the realism of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Transnational Cinematography Studies

    by Lindsay Coleman, Daisuke Miyao, Roberto Schaefer, Ceri Higgins, Patrick Keating, Evan Lieberman, Jakob Isak Nielsen, Peter H. Rist0, Carlos Rojas1, Julie Turnock2 ...
    Transnational Cinematography Studies introduces new perspectives to the discipline of film and media studies. First, this volume focuses on a crucial yet largely unexplored area in film and media studies: the substantial communication between critical studies of cinema and film production practices. This book integrates theories and practices of cinematographic technology. Secondly, Transnational ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Editing and Special/Visual Effects

    by Kristen Whissel, Scott Higgins, Dan North, Paul Monticone, Ariel Rogers, Dana Polan, Julie Turnock, Benjamin Wright, Lisa Purse, Meraj Dhir0, Tanine Allison1, Charlie Keil3, Deron Overpeck4 ...
    Series series Behind the Silver Screen Series
    Most moviegoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. We might even conceive of them as polar opposites, since effective film editing is often subtle and almost invisible, whereas special effects frequently call attention to themselves. Yet, film editors and visual effects artists have worked hand-in-hand from the dawn of cinema to the present day ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Movies, Media, and Beyond

    by James Monaco ...
    Monaco's book was an instant classic when it first came out, and with new sections in its anniversary edition, is more essential than ever. A landmark in media studies, it is unique in its sophisticated understanding of both the art and technology of film. Molly Haskell, criticWhen it was first published in 1977, HOW TO READ A FILM established itself as a genuine classic in film studies and has ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • MasterShots Volume 2: 100 Ways to Shoot Great Dialogue Scenes

    Shooting Great Dialogue Scenes

    by Christopher Kenworthy ...
    Building on the success of the bestselling "Master Shots," this volume goes much deeper, revealing the great directors' secrets for making the most of the visual during the usual static dialogue scene. Includes more than 200 diagrams illustrating camera positions. ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Digital Storytelling

    The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film

    by Shilo T. McClean ...
    How digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated effects movies"), it says more about ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Way Hollywood Tells It

    Story and Style in Modern Movies

    by David Bordwell ...
    Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition—one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Special Effects

    Still in Search of Wonder

    by Michele Pierson ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    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 ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Comics for Film, Games, and Animation

    Using Comics to Construct Your Transmedia Storyworld

    by Tyler Weaver ...
    In recent years, a new market of convergence culture has developed. In this new market, one story, idea, concept, or product can be produced, distributed, appreciated, and understood by customers in a variety of different media. We are at the tipping point of this new convergence culture, and comics is a key area affected by this emerging model.In Comics for Film, Games, and Animation Tyler Weaver ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Cinematic Appeals

    The Experience of New Movie Technologies

    by Ariel Rogers ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised to draw the viewer into the world of the screen, enabling larger-than-life close-ups of already larger-than ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD