Cinematic Illusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cinematic Illusions write by Bert Cardullo. This book was released on 2007. Cinematic Illusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains twelve essays arranged around the primordial subject of realism and anti-realism (the experimental or non-representational) in film. This book treats the subject of illusion from the point of view of the cinema's unsurpassed ability to create not only the illusion of reality, but also the reality of illusion on the silver screen.
Performing Illusions
Performing Illusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Illusions write by Dan R. North. This book was released on 2008. Performing Illusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The camera supposedly never lies, yet film's ability to frame, cut and reconstruct all that passed before its lens made cinema the pre-eminent medium of visual illusion and revelation from the early twentieth century onwards. This volume examines film's creative history of special effects and trickery, encompassing everything from George Méliès' first trick films to the modern CGI era. Evaluating movements towards the use of computer-generated 'synthespians' in films such as Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within (2001), this title suggests that cinematic effects should be understood not as attempts to perfectly mimic real life, but as constructions of substitute realities, situating them in the cultural lineage of the stage performers and illusionists and of the nineteenth century. With analyses of films such as Destination Moon (1950), Spider-Man (2002) and the King Kong films (1933 and 2006), this new volume provides an insight into cinema's capacity to perform illusions.
3D Cinema
3D Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 3D Cinema write by Miriam Ross. This book was released on 2015-03-24. 3D Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory dimensions of 3D cinema's unique visuality.
Cinema's Bodily Illusions
Cinema's Bodily Illusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cinema's Bodily Illusions write by Scott C. Richmond. This book was released on 2016-10-15. Cinema's Bodily Illusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a powerful challenge to mainstream film theory, Cinema’s Bodily Illusions demonstrates that this is the case. Scott C. Richmond bridges genres and periods by focusing, most palpably, on cinema’s power to evoke illusions: feeling like you’re flying through space, experiencing 3D without glasses, or even hallucinating. He argues that cinema is, first and foremost, a technology to modulate perception. He presents a theory of cinema as a proprioceptive technology: cinema becomes art by modulating viewers’ embodied sense of space. It works primarily not at the level of the intellect but at the level of the body. Richmond develops his theory through examples of direct perceptual illusion in cinema: hallucinatory flicker phenomena in Tony Conrad’s The Flicker, eerie depth effects in Marcel Duchamp’s Anémic Cinéma, the illusion of bodily movement through onscreen space in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. In doing so he combines insights from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and James J. Gibson’s ecological approach to perception. The result is his distinctive ecological phenomenology, which allows us to refocus on the cinema’s perceptual, rather than representational, power. Arguing against modernist habits of mind in film theory and aesthetics, and the attendant proclamations of cinema’s death or irrelevance, Richmond demonstrates that cinema’s proprioceptive aesthetics make it an urgent site of contemporary inquiry.
Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Illusions write by David A. Cook. This book was released on 2002-03-15. Lost Illusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the development of film and the film industry during the 1970s and the political and economic background that influenced it.
