The Vatican to Vegas : A History of Special Effects.

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A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, The Vatican to Vegas takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today.The ›scripted spaces‹ described by Norman M.

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Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
The Vatican to Vegas --
Part I. Scripted Spaces and the Illusion of Power, 1550-1780 --
Images --
1. Baroque Immersion, Baroque Artifice --
2. Perspective Awry --
3. Masques --
4. Happy Imprisonment: Labyrinths --
5. Burning Down Vesuvius: Late Baroque Gizmos and Fiery Illusions, 1750-1780 --
Part II. Building the Unexpected: Industrial Fables as Special Effects, 1780-1964 --
Nineteenth Century Tricks (trucs) --
The Paris Opera circa 1889 --
Stereographic (3-D) Photo Cards --
6. After 1780: The Baroque Imaginary into Science Fiction --
7. Aloft: Jules Verne; Felix Nadar; Edgar Allan Poe --
8. Oz --
9. Panoramas: A Crow's Nest Over London; Walking Through Gettysburg --
10. The Virgin and the Dynamo: World's Fairs, 1851-1964 --
Part III. Alien Thrills: Epic Shocks on Screen, 1895 to the Present --
11. Movie F/X: Making Heads Roll --
12. 2001 to 2001: Immersion into Deep Space. Baroque Reincarnation --
13. Animation as Baroque: Fleischer Morphs Harlem; Tangos to Crocodiles --
14. Panoramic Chases into Nowhere: From Tex Avery to Independence Day --
15. The Sim Future of the Cinematic City --
Part IV. The Electronic Baroque: 1955-2050 --
16. Noir Disney --
17. Scripted Spaces: Navigating the Consumer-Built City --
18. Outside the Labyrinth: Architainment in Las Vegas --
19. The Disappearing Nineties: Jerde Cities --
Conclusion --
Easy Credit: Driving Two Hundred Years a Day in Los Angeles --
Afterword --
Bush as Baroque Special Effects: (December 23, 2000) --
Appendix --
Search Engine for the History of Special Effects --
Afterword for New Edition (September 2023) --
Notes
1. Verfasser:
Klein, Norman M.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, The Vatican to Vegas takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today.The ›scripted spaces‹ described by Norman M.
Umfang:
1 online resource (531 pages)
Anmerkungen:
In English.
ISBN:
3-8394-6169-3
Schlagworte:
Media literacy.
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