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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Turnock, Julie A.
Titre(s) : The empire of effects [Texte imprimé] : Industrial Light & Magic and the rendering of realism / Julie A. Turnock
Édition : First edition
Publication : Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022
Description matérielle : ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-293) and index
"Just about every major film now comes to us with an assist from digital effects.
The results are obvious in superhero fantasies, yet dramas like Roma also rely on
computer-generated imagery to enhance the verisimilitude of scenes. But the realism
of digital effects is not actually true to life. It is a realism invented by Hollywood--by
one company specifically: Industrial Light and Magic. The Empire of Effects digs into
the history of ILM, showing how the effects company known for the puppets and space
battles of the original Star Wars went on to develop the dominant aesthetic of digital
realism. Julie Turnock finds that ILM borrowed its technique from the New Hollywood
of the 1970s, incorporating lens flares, wobbly camerawork, haphazard framing, and
other cinematography that called attention to the person behind the camera. In the
context of digital imagery, however, these aesthetic strategies had the opposite effect,
heightening the sense of realism by calling on tropes suggesting the authenticity
to which viewers were accustomed. ILM's style, on display in the most successful films
of the 1980s and beyond, was so convincing that other studios were forced to follow
suit. Today the irony of digital realism is compounded by another: a victim of its
own success, ILM fostered a cinematic monoculture in which it is but one player among
many"
Sujet(s) : Cinéma -- Effets spéciaux -- Histoire
Cinéma numérique -- Histoire
Animation par ordinateur -- Histoire
Réalisme (cinéma) -- Histoire
Cinéma -- Esthétique -- Histoire
Industrie du cinéma -- Histoire
Industrial light & magic
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 24 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Effets spéciaux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1477325301. - ISBN 9781477325308. - ISBN 9781477325315 (erroné). - ISBN 9781477325322
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470588327
Notice n° :
FRBNF47058832
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: The ILM version ; ILM vs. everybody else : effects houses in the digital
age ; Perfect imperfection : ILM's effects aesthetics ; Retconning CGI innovation
: ILM's rhetorical dominance of effects history ; ILM's international standard of
effects realism in the global marketplace ; Disney, Marvel Studios, and the ILM aesthetic
; Conclusion: Unreal engine : ILM in a Disney world.
