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Digital Mayhem, Optical Decimation: The Technopoetics of Special Effects
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Digital Mayhem, Optical Decimation: The Technopoetics of Special Effects

Garrett Stewart
The journal of popular film and television, Vol.45(1), pp.4-15
01/01/2017
DOI: 10.1080/01956051.2017.1270135

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Abstract

In a screen climate where "graphic violence" (once commonly excoriated in its social effects) is increasingly a matter of violent computer graphics (CGI), this article returns to Christian Metz's landmark essay on trucage (trick effects) to rethink its terms for the post-filmic mode of "digitage" rather than traditional montage.
Christian Metz digital special effects (VFX) pixel disintegration trucage

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