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The digitization of cinematic visual effects : Hollywood's coming of age / Rama Venkatasawmy.

By: Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2013.Description: ix, 333 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0739176218 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0739176226 (ebook)
  • 9780739176214 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780739176221 (ebook)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.U6 V455 2013
Contents:
An overview of VFX-intensive filmmaking in 20th century Hollywood cinema -- Defining the object of enquiry -- "Effects" in Hollywood cinema -- Science, technology and Hollywood cinema -- The Hollywood cinema industry's coming of digital age -- Afterword -- Appendices: (A) A time-line of landmark (VFX-intensive) films, techno-scientific innovations, financial and industrial events that have contributed to the evolution of digital VFX in the Hollywood cinema industry up to the 1990s -- (B) Top 100 all-time domestic grosses (2012) -- (C) A basic glossary of analog and digital terminologies and key professions in the Hollywood cinema VFX industry.
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

An overview of VFX-intensive filmmaking in 20th century Hollywood cinema -- Defining the object of enquiry -- "Effects" in Hollywood cinema -- Science, technology and Hollywood cinema -- The Hollywood cinema industry's coming of digital age -- Afterword -- Appendices: (A) A time-line of landmark (VFX-intensive) films, techno-scientific innovations, financial and industrial events that have contributed to the evolution of digital VFX in the Hollywood cinema industry up to the 1990s -- (B) Top 100 all-time domestic grosses (2012) -- (C) A basic glossary of analog and digital terminologies and key professions in the Hollywood cinema VFX industry.

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