Special Effects on the Screen -

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Résumé :

Introduction, Concepts, Chapter 1: (Martin Lefebvre) Mind(ing) the Gap, Chapter 2: (John Belton) Images as Visual Effects, Chapter 3: (Fran?ois Jost) The Pragmatics of trucage: Between Feigning and Fiction, Chapter 4: (Marc Furstenau) Realism, Illusion and Special Effects in the Cinema,Techniques, Chapter 5: (Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk) Trick-o-logics 1810/1910: The Magic of Tricks and Special Effects between the Stage and the Screen, Chapter 6: (Fran?ois Albera) Those Ordinary Special Effects, Chapter 7: (Donald Crafton) Black Magic: The Space Between the Frames in Cinematic Special Effects, Chapter 8: (Beno?t Turquety) Photography and the Composite Image, from Recreations to the Digital...

Biographie:

Martin Lefebvre is Professor and Chair of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University (Montr?al, Canada). He is Editor-in-Chief of Recherches s?miotiques/Semiotic Inquiry and has published widely on semiotics and film. He is the author of Truffaut et ses doubles (Vrin, 2013) and has edited several volumes including Techniques et technologies du cin?ma (with A. Gaudreault...

Sommaire:
or, A Portrait of M?li?s as a Bergsonian Filmmaker, Chapter 9: (Katharina Loew) From Trick to Special Effect: Standardization and the Rise of Imperceptible Cinematic Illusions, Chapter 10: (Roger Odin) Special Effects and Spaces of Communication: A Semio-Pragmatic Approach, Chapter 11: (Philippe Marion) Image Capture, or the Control of Special Effects,Films, Chapter 12: (Janet Bergstrom) Murnau's Sunrise: In-Camera Effects and Effects Specialists, Chapter 13: (Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues) King Kong, an Open Perspective, Chapter 14: (Kristen Whissel) Parallax Effects, Uncanny Visual Effects and 3D Cinema of the 1950s, Chapter 15: (Sean Cubitt) Oblivion: Of Time and Special Effects,Envoi, Chapter 16: (Dudley Andrew) The Effect of Miracles and the Miracle of Effects: Bazin's Faith in Evolution, Index, Bibliography.