Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics
ISBN: 9780231535274
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Blockbusters (Motion pictures); Cinematography -- Special effects;

Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s.

Julie A. Turnock is assistant professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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