Spectacular Posthumanism: The Digital Vernacular of Visual Effects

by Drew Ayers

Book Overview

Spectacular Posthumanism examines the ways in which VFX imagery fantasizes about digital disembodiment while simultaneously reasserting the importance of the lived body. Analyzing a wide range of case studies-including the films of David Cronenberg and Stanley Kubrick, image technologies such as performance capture and crowd simulation, Game of Thrones, Terminator: Genisys, Planet Earth, and 300-Ayers builds on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150137382X
• ISBN13: 9781501373824
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"