Architectures of Illusion

From Motion Pictures to Navigable Interactive Environments

Francois Penz, Maureen Thomas

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Year: 2003
• ISBN:
  9781841508924
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Sociologia

The world of media production is in a state of rapid transformation. In this age of the Internet, interactivity and digital broadcasting, do traditional standards of quality apply or must we identify and implement new criteria?This profile of the work of the Cambridge University Moving Image Studio (CUMIS), presents a strong argument that new developments in digital media are absolutely dependent on an understanding of traditional excellence. The book stands alone in placing equal emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of its subject matter and avoids jargon so as to be easily understood by the general reader as well as the specialist.Chapters discuss: • animation • navigable architectural environments • moving image narrativity
• questions of truth and representation • virtuality/reality • synthetic imaging
• interactivityThis broad analysis of current research, teaching and media production contains essential information for all those working or studying in the areas of multimedia, architecture, film and television.The book is designed as a core text for the Cambridge University 1 year MPhil Degree in Architecture and the Moving Image.

Index

Aardman Animation 42

Aardman Studios 22

Aarseth, Espen 74

Abe (character in Oddworld) 61-2, 73, 103, 110-11, 116, 127

abstract art: and animation 47;

forms set to music 9-11, 38

Abstract Expressionism 9

abstract film, and computers 39-50

academic attitude to film 6

acting, synthetic

see synthetic acting action, vs. drama 103

Action games 56

active protagonist in console games

see storyseeker Adair, J 183

Adorno, Theodor 6

adventure games

see console games Aeschylus 111

Alberti 166

Alcaine, José Luis 86

Algar, James 30, 109

aliens from outer space, as characters in console games 107

Alighieri, Dante 179-80, 180, 181

Almodóvar, Pedro 86

Altman, Robert 125

anarchy in animation 37-8;

Avery 20;

and Disney 27, 28;

Fleischers 28, 29

ancient Egyptian art, style used in animation 46-7

Anderson, David 16-17

Anderson, Lindsay 148, 154, 157, 168

Anderson, Paul 91

Andrew, D 177

anger, acting out 114

Angoulême, France 4

animal motion on film, early experiments 136-8

animals, talking, in animation industry 43

animation: combined with other media 7–22;

and documentary 38-44;

fantasy vs. realism 22-38;

importance in new media 3;

industry, USA 23, 25, 30;

meaning of’animation’ 4;

as postmodern art 21-2;

reason for neglect 5-6;

revival at end of 20th C 4-6

Anime 60,...