Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder (Paperback)

Introduction: Special Effects and the Popular Media
1. Magic, Science, Art: Before Cinema
Natural Magic
Science Fictions
Scientific American
Millenial Magic
2. From Cult-classicism to Techno-futurism: Converging on Wired magazine
The Limits of Convergence
Photon and Stop-motion animation
Corporate-futurism/Techno-futurism
Home-production
3. The Wonder Years and Beyond: 1989-1995
On Genre
Reinventing the Cinema of Attractions
Digital Artifacts
Retro-future/Retro-vision
4. Crafting a Future for CGI
The Case of Editing
Disaster Strikes
An Aesthetics of Scarcity
The Public Life of Numbers
Conclusion: The Transnational Matrix of SF
Notes
Bibliography
Index