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Author Venkatasawmy, Rama, 1972-

Title The digitization of cinematic visual effects [electronic resource] : Hollywood's coming of age / Rama Venkatasawmy.

Imprint Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.

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Description ix, 333 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents An overview of VFX-intensive filmmaking in 20th century Hollywood cinema -- Defining the object of enquiry -- "Effects" in Hollywood cinema -- Science, technology and Hollywood cinema -- The Hollywood cinema industry's coming of digital age -- Afterword -- Appendices: (A) A time-line of landmark (VFX-intensive) films, techno-scientific innovations, financial and industrial events that have contributed to the evolution of digital VFX in the Hollywood cinema industry up to the 1990s -- (B) Top 100 all-time domestic grosses (2012) -- (C) A basic glossary of analog and digital terminologies and key professions in the Hollywood cinema VFX industry.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Cinematography -- Special effects.
Digital cinematography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780739176214 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739176221 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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