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The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, analyzes how the Hollywood cinema industry's visual effects applications have not only motivated the expansion of filmmaking praxis, they have also influenced the evolution of viewing pleasures and spectatorship experiences. Following the digitization of their associated technologies, VFX have been responsible for multiplying the strategies of representation and storytelling, as well as extending the range of stories that can potentially be told onscreen. By the same token, the visual standards of the Hollywood film's production and exhibition have been growing in sophistication. On the basis of displaying groundbreaking VFXâimmaculately realized through the application of cutting-edge technologies and craftsmanshipâand of projecting such a significant degree of visual innovation and originality, certain Hollywood movies have established techno-visual trends and industrial standards for subsequent filmmaking practice.
Hollywood cinema's entry into the digital realm is intertwined with the intensification of conglomeratic practices within the movie business, the domain of techno-scientific R&D in filmmaking, and the unification of corporate media, information technology, and entertainment. Hence, the standardization of, and convergence toward, the digital medium is emblematic of Hollywood cinema's techno-industrial evolution in the late twentieth century. Accordingly, this volume identifies various synergies and partnershipsâbetween VFX providers, movie studios, graphic designers, and moreâthat have emerged from a progressive growth of awareness in Hollywood of the digital medium's potential.
Hollywood cinema's entry into the digital realm is intertwined with the intensification of conglomeratic practices within the movie business, the domain of techno-scientific R&D in filmmaking, and the unification of corporate media, information technology, and entertainment. Hence, the standardization of, and convergence toward, the digital medium is emblematic of Hollywood cinema's techno-industrial evolution in the late twentieth century. Accordingly, this volume identifies various synergies and partnershipsâbetween VFX providers, movie studios, graphic designers, and moreâthat have emerged from a progressive growth of awareness in Hollywood of the digital medium's potential.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Text
- Introduction
- An Overview of VFX-Intensive Filmmaking in 20th Century Hollywood Cinema
- Defining the Object of Enquiry
- âEffectsâ in Hollywood Cinema
- Science, Technology and Hollywood Cinema
- The Hollywood Cinema Industryâs Coming of Digital Age
- Afterword
- Appendix 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
- Appendix B: Top 100 All-Time Domestic Grosses (2012)
- Appendix C: A Basic Glossary of Analog and Digital Terminologies and Key Professions in the Hollywood Cinema VFX Industry
- Works Cited
- Films Cited
- Index