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CGI takes 'Animalia' from book to screen in Encore (September 2007) vol.26 iss.09 p.26-7
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Cinema in the digital age / Rombes, Nicholas New York: New York Columbia University Press, 2017.
Call No: 62 ROMAuthor: Rombes, Nicholas Edition: Revised editionPlace: London; New YorkPublisher: New York Columbia University PressPubDate: 2017PhysDes: 22 b& w illustrationsSubject: DIGITAL CINEMA ; NOSTALGIA ; FILMMAKING ; DISTRIBUTION ; DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION ; MEDIA AND THE CINEMA ; EDITING ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; VIDEO FORMATS ; PARANORMAL ACTIVITY : THE MARKED ONES ( US, Christopher Landon, 2014) ; THEORY ; SPECTATORSHIP ; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986) ; APPLE ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; FORMATS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY Summary: Have digital technologies transformed cinema into a new art, or do they simply replicate and mimic analogue, film-based cinema? Newly revised and expanded to take the latest developments into account, Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in the wake of the digital revolution. Nicholas Rombes considers Festen (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Timecode (2000), Russian Ark (2002), and The Ring (2002), among others. Haunted by their analogue pasts, these films are interested not in digital purity but rather in imperfection and mistakes-blurry or pixilated images, shaky camera work, and other elements that remind viewers of the human behind the camera.With a new introduction and new material, this updated edition takes a fresh look at the historical and contemporary state of digital cinema. It pays special attention to the ways in which nostalgia for the look and feel of analogue disrupts the aesthetics of the digital image, as well as how recent films such as The Social Network (2010) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)-both shot digitally-have disguised and erased their digital foundations. The book also explores new possibilities for writing about and theorizing film, such as randomization.Notes: Includes bibliographical references.ISBN: 9780231167550Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Accelerationism
2.The Adorno Paradox
3.Against Method
4.Analog/ Digital Splice
5.Blood, Simple
6.Boredom and Analog Nostalgia
7.The Digital Spectacular
8.Disposable Aesthetics
9.DV Humanism
10.Filmless Films
11.Frame Dragging
12.The Ideology of the Long Take
13.Image/ Text
14.Incompleteness
15.Interfaces
16.iPod Experiment
17.Ironic Mode
18.Looking at Yourself Looking
19.The Lost Underground
20.Love in the Time of Fragments
21.Media as Its Own Theory
22.Mobile Viewing
23.Moving Space in the Frame, and a Note on Film Theory
24.Natural Time
25.Nonlinear
26.Paranormal Activity 2
27.Pausing
28.Punk
29.Realism
30.Real Time
31.The Real You
32.The Reality Industrial Complex
33.Remainders
34.Sampling
35.Secondary Becomes Primary
36.Self-Deconstructing Narratives
37.Shaky Camera
38.Shoot!
39.Simultaneous Cinema
40.Small Screens
Contents note continued: 41.Target Video
42.Time, Memory
43.Time-Shifting
44.Tmesis: Skimming and Skipping
45.Undirected Films
46.Viewer Participation
47.Virtual Humanism: Part 1
48.Virtual Humanism: Part 2
49.Visible Language, Spring 1977
50.Interpreting Film Images Through Randomized Constraint: The Blue Velvet Project
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The eyes have it : cinema and the reality effect / Murray Pomerance New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, c2013.
Call No: 630.3 POMAuthor: Pomerance, Murray Source: USPlace: New JerseyPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2013PhysDes: xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: Techniques of the moving imageSubject: ART DIRECTION ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; MOTION CONTROL ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SET DECORATING ; SET DESIGNING ; SPECIAL EFFECTS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; KELLY, GENE ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS (US, Michael Lehmann, 2002) ; ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen, 1977) ; ARIZONA DREAM (FR, Emir Kusturica, 1992) ; BRIGADOON (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1954) ; CLOVERFIELD (US, Matt Reeves, 2008) ; DARK PASSAGE (US, Delmer Daves, 1947) ; DEFIANCE [US, Edward Zwick, 2008] ; DR STRANGELOVE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; FIELD OF DREAMS (US, Phil Alden Robinson, 1989) ; IN HARM'S WAY (US, Otto Preminger, 1965) ; NORTH BY NORTHWEST (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) ; RANDOM HARVEST (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1942) ; SIGNS (US, M. Night Shyamalan, 2002) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ; WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) Summary: The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, sensory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences - including The Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, and Signs - Murray Pomerance journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930s to the 200s to show how the viewer's experience of "reality" is put in context, challenged, and wilfully engaged. Four meditations deal with "reality effects" from different philosophical and technical angles. "Vivid Rivals" assesses active participation and critical judgement in seeing effects with works such as Defiance, Cloverfield, Knowing, and Thelma & Louise. "The Two of Us" considers double placement and doubled experience with films such as The Prestige, Niagara and A Stolen Life. "Being There" discusses cinematic performance and the problems of believability, highlighting such films as Gran Torino, The Manchurian Candidate, In Harm's Way, and other films. "Fairy Land" explores the art of scenic backing, focusing on the fictional world of Brigadoon, which borrows from both hard-edged realism and evocative landscape painting." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Contains illustrations, bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9780813560588
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Frank Miller's Sin City : the making of the movie / by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, edited by Chris Roberson, designed by Kurt Volk [United States]: Troublemaker Publishing, c2005.
Call No: 79SIN MILAuthor: Miller, Frank ; Rodriguez, Roger Source: USPlace: [United States]Publisher: Troublemaker PublishingPubDate: c2005PhysDes: 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; ART AND THE CINEMA ; ART DIRECTION ; AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS ; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; COSTUME DESIGNING ; COSTUMES ; MAKE-UP ; MERCHANDISING ; POSTERS ; PRE-PRODUCTION ; PRODUCTION ; SCRIPTS ; SET DESIGNING ; SPECIAL EFFECTS ; MILLER, FRANK ; RODRIGUEZ, ROBERT ; SIN CITY (US, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2005) Summary: "With contributions from creators, cast, and crew, FRANK MILLER'S SIN CITY: THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE covers the production, from page to screen and everything in between. Featuring Rodriguez's screenplay adaptation of the original graphic novels, exclusive behind-the-scenes photos, never before seen art and conceptual designs, interviews and commentary, this is the perfect companion to both the original graphic novels and the movie."Notes: Includes poster art and promotional material for the film; Includes photo creditsISBN: 1933104007; 9781933104003Donation: Simon WincerContents: Introduction by Frank Miller -- The origins of Sin City -- Approaching Sin City -- Troublemaker Digital on previsualization -- The Hard Goodbye -- Props -- KNB -- The Big Fat Kill -- Frank Miller's sketchbook -- Wardrobe -- Cars -- That Yellow Bastard -- Poster art -- Crew -- Photo credits
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Inventing film studies / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, editors Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Call No: 670 INV GRIAuthor: Grieveson, Lee ; Wasson, Haidee Source: UKPlace: DurhamPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xxxii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: American Film Institute ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; CRITICISM ; FILM ART MEDIA ; FILM CULTURE ; FILM NOIR ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH ; FILMOGRAPHIES ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA ; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART [NEW YORK] ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SOCIETIES, FILM ; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS ; BACHMANN, GIDEON ; BARRY, IRIS ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; BERGSTROM, JANET ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; BURGESS, ERNEST ; BUSCOMBE, ED ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; COOK, PAM ; DEREN, MAYA ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; GRIERSON, JOHN ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HAYS, WILL ; HEATH, STEPHEN ; HUFF, THEODORE ; MACCABE, COLIN ; METZ, CHRISTIAN ; PARK, ROBERT ; PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR ; PENLEY, CONSTANCE ; RAINER, YVONNE ; RAMSAYE, TERRY ; RICHTER, HANS ; ROTHA, PAUL ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; SELDES, GILBERT ; SHORT, REV WILLIAM H ; STERN, SEYMOUR ; THRASHER, FREDRICK ; VOGEL, AMOS ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; WEINBERG, HERMAN G ; WHANNEL, PADDY ; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university—that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. -- Publisher descriptionNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780822342892Contents: The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson
-- Making Cinema Knowable --
Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson
Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson
"Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick
Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan
-- Making Cinema Educational --
Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson
Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland
Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd
From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvev, Peter Wollen
-- Making Cinema Legible --
Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest
Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen
(Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, Sharon Willis
Little Books / Mark Betz
-- Making and Remaking Cinema Studies --
Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope
Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick
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Special effects : creating movie magic / by Christopher Finch New York: Abbeville Press, c1984.
Call No: 236 FINAuthor: Finch, Christopher Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Abbeville PressPubDate: c1984PhysDes: 252 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmSubject: COMPUTER GRAPHICS ; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA ; COMPUTERIZED ANIMATION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; COSTUME DESIGNING ; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS ; MOTION CONTROL ; MAKE UP ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY ; SPECIAL EFFECTS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; SET DESIGNING ; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BLADE RUNNER: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; TRON (US, Steven Lisberger, 1982) Summary: "Special effects is an art that sets itself the task of putting on screen anything a filmmaker can imagine, however strange or fantastic. From King Kong to Star Wars, this book details the secrets behind the magic that has thrilled and delighted generations of movie-goers." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 244ISBN: 0896594521Contents: -- acknowledgements -- prologue -- part 1: the art of deception -- 1: tricks and treats -- 2: masks and mirrors -- 3: silent magic -- 4: the coming of sound -- 5: king kong -- 6: invisible effects -- 7: new aspects -- 8: monsters and myths -- part II: odysseys -- 9: new beginnings -- 10: the making of 2001 -- 11: back to earth -- 12: pitching -- 13: star wars -- 14: close encounters -- 15: phone home -- 16: innovations -- 17: blade runner -- 18:state of the art -- part III: sons of hal -- 19: coordinates -- 20: the making of tron -- 21: simulation -- 22: the future -- bibliography -- glossary -- index --
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Technology helps stars live forever in Canberra Times [Saturday Forum] (04/02/2017) p.2
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