Scott Bukatman

Matters of Gravity

Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Matters of Gravity" is more than a collection of tour de force essays, although it is certainly that. It maps an important theoretical and critical project, reclaiming the 'lively arts' and exploring the kinetic and affective dimensions of popular culture. Scott Bukatman's breathless prose and conceptual pyrotechnics embody popular culture's dynamism, making us feel it, making us want to dance it. His writing crackles with wit, sparkles with vividness, and throbs with his own passionate engagement with his topic."--Henry Jenkins, coeditor of "Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 153mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331193
• ISBN-10: 0822331195
• Artikelnr.: 22110679

Autorenporträt

Scott Bukatman

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
One Remembering Cyberspace
1 There's Always . . . Tomorrowland: Disney and the Hypercinematic
Experience 13
2 Gibson's Typewriter 32
3 X-Bodies: The Torment of the Mutant Superhero (1994) 48
Two Kaleidoscopic Perceptions
4 The Artificial Infinite: On Special Effects and the Sublime 81
5 The Ultimate Trip: Special Effects and Kaleidoscopic Perception 111
Three The Grace of Beings
6 Taking Shape: Morphing and the Performance of Self 133
7 Syncopated City: New York in Musical Film (1929-1961) 157
8 The Boys in the Hoods: A Song of the Urban Superhero (2000) 184
Notes 225
Bibliography 257
Index 270