Animating Unpredictable Effects: Nonlinearity in Hollywood s R&d Complex - Rilegato

Gowanlock, Jordan

 
9783030742263: Animating Unpredictable Effects: Nonlinearity in Hollywood s R&d Complex
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ISBN 10: 3030742261 ISBN 13: 9783030742263
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Sinossi

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.


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Informazioni sull?autore

Jordan Gowanlock is a media historian. For the past two years he has been conducting research as a postdoctoral visiting scholar in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley, USA. He is currently a non-regular faculty member at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada. 

 

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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.

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Editore
Palgrave Macmillan
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
3030742261
ISBN 13 
9783030742263
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
220
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Koch-Chemie GmbH
https://www.koch-chemie.com

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9783030742294: Animating Unpredictable Effects: Nonlinearity in Hollywood’s R&D Complex: Nonlinearity in Hollywood’s R&d Complex

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  3030742296 ISBN 13:  9783030742294
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
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