Scott Bukatman

Matters of Gravity

Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Accessible and wide-ranging essays on cinema, the body, and the experience of modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 136mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331322
• ISBN-10: 0822331322
• Artikelnr.: 21236439

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
One Remembering Cyberspace
1 There's Always . . . Tomorrowland: Disney and the Hypercinematic
Experience 13
2 Gibson's Typewriter 32
3 X-Bodies: The Torment of the Mutant Superhero (1994) 48
Two Kaleidoscopic Perceptions
4 The Artificial Infinite: On Special Effects and the Sublime 81
5 The Ultimate Trip: Special Effects and Kaleidoscopic Perception 111
Three The Grace of Beings
6 Taking Shape: Morphing and the Performance of Self 133
7 Syncopated City: New York in Musical Film (1929-1961) 157
8 The Boys in the Hoods: A Song of the Urban Superhero (2000) 184
Notes 225
Bibliography 257
Index 270