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

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.