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Matters of Gravity
Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
Langbeschreibung
Accessible and wide-ranging essays on cinema, the body, and the experience of modernity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface xiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1One Remembering Cyberspace1 There's Always . . . Tomorrowland: Disney and the Hypercinematic Experience 132 Gibson's Typewriter 323 X-Bodies: The Torment of the Mutant Superhero (1994) 48Two Kaleidoscopic Perceptions4 The Artificial Infinite: On Special Effects and the Sublime 815 The Ultimate Trip: Special Effects and Kaleidoscopic Perception 111Three The Grace of Beings6 Taking Shape: Morphing and the Performance of Self 1337 Syncopated City: New York in Musical Film (1929-1961) 1578 The Boys in the Hoods: A Song of the Urban Superhero (2000) 184Notes 225Bibliography 257Index 270
Scott Bukatman is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He is the author of Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction, published by Duke University Press.
ISBN-13:
9780822331322
Veröffentl:
2003
Erscheinungsdatum:
21.07.2003
Seiten:
296
Autor:
Scott Bukatman
Gewicht:
603 g
Format:
264x136x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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