Ariel Rogers: 3 books
On the Screen
Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Today, in a world of smartphones, tablets, and computers, screens are a pervasive part of daily life. Yet a multiplicity of screens has been integral to the media landscape since cinema’s golden age. In On the Screen, Ariel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments...
Cinematic Appeals
The Experience of New Movie Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised to draw...
by Kristen Whissel, Scott Higgins, Dan North
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Most moviegoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. We might even conceive of them as polar opposites, since effective film editing is often subtle and almost invisible, whereas special effects frequently call attention to themselves. Yet, film editors...