Animating Unpredictable Effects Nonlinearity in Hollywood's R&D Complex

• Yazar: Gowanlock, Jordan (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Springer Nature 2021
• Seri Bilgileri: Palgrave Animation
• Konular: Animated films; Film, TV & radio; Film theory & criticism; Animation; Film/TV Industry; Film Theory; Film and Television Industry; Visual Effects; Live-Action Cinema; Economics; Mechanical Control; Socio-Political; Engineering; Open Access; Performing arts; Film history, theory & criticism
• Online Erişim: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Özet

Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters' flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media industries conducting more private R&D as Cold War federal funding began to wane in the late 1980s. In this context studios and media software companies took concepts used for studying and managing unpredictable systems like markets, weather, and fluids and turned them into tools for animation. Unpredictable Visual Effects theorizes how these animations are part of a paradigm of control evident across society, while at the same time exploring what they can teach us about the relationship between making and knowing.

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (206 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-74227-0
9783030742270

Erişim

Open Access