Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change - Couverture souple

Sobchack, Vivian

 
9780816633197: Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0816633193 ISBN 13 : 9780816633197
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Synopsis

Two thousand years ago, Ovid asked his readers to imagine metamorphoses in which men and women became flowers and beasts. Today, before our cinema-savvy eyes, people melt and re-form as altogether new creatures: they "morph." This volume explores what digital morphing means -- both as a cultural practice specific to our times and as a link to a much broader history of images of human transformation.

Meta-Morphing ranges over topics that include turn-of-the-century "quick-change" artists, Mesoamerican shamanic transformation, and cosmetic surgery; recent works such as Terminator 2, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Heavenly Creatures, and Forrest Gump; and the transformations imagined by Kafka, Proust, and Burroughs. The contributors look not only at the technical wizardry behind digital morphing, but also at the history and cultural concerns it expresses.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0816633193
ISBN 13 
9780816633197
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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