MDIA 590

Spring 2023

Part of Term B
Mar 13-May 3
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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
59201
Lecture-Discussion
MM
3:00PM -5:50PM
MW
148 Armory
Turnock, J
Part of Term:
B
Date Range:
03/13/23-05/03/23
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Movie Magic: Hist&Tech of VFX
Section Info:
Movie Magic: The History and Technology of Visual Effects. This roughly chronological course will explore special effects technology, history and aesthetics. More specifically, we will use the technological history of special effects (which span cinema history) to examine representational strategies of film This course will take a broad historical view to question the various binaries common in discussions of special effects, especially optical vs. digital, and realism vs. fantasy. Drawing on texts by theorists and practitioners alike, we will examine how the films mobilize specific technologies, and the aesthetic frameworks they bring into play. The course will discuss the wide variety of films that have made extensive and creative use of special effects. We will screen films ranging from Méliès early trick films, experimentation in the silent era in films such as Metropolis, studio-era process photography and optical printing in King Kong and others, 1960s mainstream with 2001: A Space Odyssey as well as avant-garde animation, the intensified interest of special effects work in 1970s blockbusters in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the 1980s with Tron and The Thing and into the digital era beginning with Jurassic Park in the early 1990s, to the present. *This course meets with MACS 395 MM (60917).
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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