Editing and Special/Visual Effects: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking - Hardcover

Charlie Keil; Kristen Whissel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784536970 ISBN 13: 9781784536978

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2016

Synopsis

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silent era, which astounded audiences by splicingin or editing out key frames, all the way to today's cutting-edgeeffects technologies. Multiple filmmaking techniques are exploredthroughout, from classic Hollywood's rear projection and matteshots to the fast cuts and wall-to-wall CGI of the contemporaryblockbuster. The book introduces readers to the analog and digitaltools used in these crafts, showing the impact of changes in the filmindustry itself.

About this title

About the Author

Charlie Keil is Principal of Innis Collegeand a professor in the History Departmentof the University of Toronto. His booksinclude Early American Cinema in Transitionand the co-edited collections, AmericanCinema's Transitional Era and AmericanCinema of the 1910s.Kristen Whissel is a professor of filmand media at the University of California,Berkeley. She is the author of SpectacularDigital Effects: CGI and ContemporaryCinema and of Picturing AmericanModernity: Traffic, Technology and the SilentCinema. She is guest editor of two specialissues of film Criticism journal, on digitaleffects and on 3D.

Edition details

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784536970
• ISBN 13: 9781784536978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Charlie Keil, Kristen Whissel