Special Effects on the Screen : Faking the View from Méliès to Motion Capture.

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Martin Lefebvre and Marc Furstenau
Concepts
1. Mind(ing) the Gap
Martin Lefebvre
2. Images as Visual Effects
John Belton
3. The Pragmatics of Trucage: Between Feigning and Fiction
François Jost
4. Realism, Illusion, and Special Effects in the Cinema
Marc Furstenau
Techniques
5. Trick-o-logics 1810/1910: The Magic of Tricks and Special Effects
Between the Stage and the Screen
Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk
6. Those Ordinary "Special Effects"
François Albera
7. Black Magic: The "Space Between the Frames" in Cinematic Special Effects
Donald Crafton
8. Photography and the Composite Image, or A Portrait of Méliès as Bergsonian Filmmaker
Benoît Turquety
9. From Trick to Special Effect: Standardization and the Rise of Imperceptible Cinematic Illusions
Katharina Loew
10. Special Effects and Spaces of Communication: A Semio-Pragmatic Approach
Roger Odin
11. Image Capture, or The Control of Special Effects
Philippe Marion
Films
12. Murnau's Sunrise: In-Camera Effects and Effects Specialists
Janet Bergstrom
13. King Kong, An Open Perspective
Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues
14. Uncanny Visual Effects, Postwar Modernity, and House of Wax 3D
Kristen Whissel
15. Oblivion: Of Time and Special Effects
Sean Cubitt
Envoi
16. The Effect of Miracles and the Miracle of Effects: Bazin's Faith in Evolution
Dudley Andrew
Bibliography
Index.