Interesting post, and a great theme for the week-- I look forward to reading the rest of the entries. However, I was surprised by the aesthetic assumptions on which this critique of the Avengers project seems to rely: an invocation of the (never defined) ...
As a fan of Laurie Anderson going back to O Superman, I really appreciated your bringing this clip to light, Kimberly. Anderson's stage shows were-- still are?-- legendary for their multimediation, a tradition drawing equally on prog rock, performanc ...
Michael, I really like your framing of the Dynamation short as an instance of match-moving avant la lettre. While there are certainly profound differences between digital and "analog" eras of effects manufacture, I continue to believe that the o ...
That clarifies things for me, Drew; thanks. And thanks for pointing me to Massumi's work on virtuality, which does provide a welcome alternative to the often restrictive opposition between digital and analog (if this dialectic is a divided highway in ...
Chuck, great post, and I like the way a deeper history of the marketing of cinematic immersion has come out through the comments. For what it's worth, I think a large part of Cameron's cleverness in managing his own auteurist brand has to do wit ...
Dan, splendid post-- and I appreciate the elegance and charm of your slideshow, itself something of a "special effect" that fittingly concludes our week organizing In Media Res. Your framing of the Liebig trading cards helps to crystallize a th ...
Fascinating post, Drew. 300 belongs to a class of films I've been thinking of as (in Thomas Leitch's words) hyperfaithful adaptations, which use digital technologies to bring graphic novels and comic books to cinematic life with as much fidelity ...
Michael, great post and subsequent discussion-- the ideas raised here make me think of Elsaesser's argument about nostalgia being the default mode of contemporary blockbusters, a notion I used to resist (for its implication that such films are, at an ...
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Old-school hierarchies creeping in?
Thinking outside the box
Authorship in Special Effects
Thanks
Immersive Movies, Immersive Bodies
Special Effect as Quasi-Object
Bodies Drawn, Filmed, Painted, Rendered
Transmediating history?