Description
About the Author
CHARLIE KEIL is the principal of Innis College and a professor in the history department at the University of Toronto. His many books include Early American Cinema in Transition and the coedited collections American Cinema's Transitional Era and American Cinema of the 1910s (Rutgers University Press). KRISTEN WHISSEL is a professor of film and media at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema and Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema.
Reviews
"In this sweeping overview, film scholars Charlie Keil and Kristen Whissel show how these two vital crafts have worked in tandem-from the beginning of 'moving pictures' through modern-day digital blockbusters-to create movie magic." * Parade *
"Editing and Special/Visual Effects is an important step in rightfully positioning the art of editing within the academic canon." * CineMontage: Journal of the Motion Picture Editors Guild *
"Editing and Special/Visual Effects is a much needed survey of two fundamental cinematic crafts and techniques and their creative challenges. Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the instrumental impact of technological turns on film history." -- Andre Gaudreault * Universite de Montreal *
Book Information
ISBN 9780813570815
Author Charlie Keil
Format Paperback
Page Count 268
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm