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Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics
Julie A. Turnock
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Description for Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics
Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, 48 photos and diagrams. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; APFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 achievements of 1977. Turnock analyzes the far-reaching impact of the convincing, absorbing, and seemingly unlimited fantasy environments of that year's iconic films, dedicating a major section of her book to the unparalleled innovations of Star Wars ... Read more
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 achievements of 1977. Turnock analyzes the far-reaching impact of the convincing, absorbing, and seemingly unlimited fantasy environments of that year's iconic films, dedicating a major section of her book to the unparalleled innovations of Star Wars ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231163521
SKU
V9780231163521
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About Julie A. Turnock
Julie A. Turnock is assistant professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Reviews for Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics
With consummate research and clear explanations, Turnock shows how the special effects revolution actually took place before CGI and how the way the blockbusters of the late sixties and seventies, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, introduced new conceptions of cinema's relation to reality and fantasy-and how it relates to the cinema of today.
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