Most filmgoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. Yet film editors and visual effects artists have worked hand-in-hand from the dawn of cinema to the present day.
Kristen Whissel is a professor of filmand media at the University of California,Berkeley. She is the author of SpectacularDigital Effects: CGI and ContemporaryCinema and of Picturing AmericanModernity: Traffic, Technology and the SilentCinema. She is guest editor of two specialissues of film Criticism journal, on digitaleffects and on 3D.
'A much-needed survey of two fundamental cinematic crafts & 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
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