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Spectacular posthumanism : the digital vernacular of visual effects /

Spectacular Posthumanism examines the ways in which VFX imagery fantasizes about digital disembodiment while simultaneously reasserting the importance of the lived body. Analyzing a wide range of case studies-including the films of David Cronenberg and Stanley Kubrick, image technologies such as per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ayers, Drew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a fast, cheap & out of control approach to vernacular posthumanism
  • Hybrid bodies
  • Cronenberg's new flesh
  • Performance capture's spectacle of disembodiment
  • Part 2. Digital bodies and authenticity
  • The body's digital (dis)honesty
  • Digital space's spectacle of embodiment
  • Part 3. Machinic and digital spectacle
  • Kubrick's machine vision
  • Planet earth's spectacular HDTV
  • Conclusion: a drone future.