Kristen Whissel
Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema
- ISBN 13:
- 9780822355885
- author:
- Kristen Whissel
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 1.3 x 15.2 x 22.2 cm
- Genre:
- Music, Stage & Screen, Film, Production & Technology
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema explores how computer-generated visual effects have transformed live-action films since 1989. Kristen Whissel identifies four key effects emblems that heighten narrative drama, including the illusion of gravity-defying movement, digital swarms, photorealistic creatures, and morphing figures.
Through a close analysis of films such as Avatar, The Matrix, Jurassic Park, and Titanic, Whissel reveals how these spectacular effects contrast power with powerlessness, life with death, freedom with constraint, and the individual with the collective. This book offers a new analytic rubric to cinema studies, shedding light on the role of digital effects in shaping the narrative stakes of contemporary films.
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