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  title info:
    title: Synthetic Cinema
    sub title: The 21st-Century Movie Machine
  name:
    name part: Dixon, Wheeler Winston.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 91 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "synthetic cinema." He details how movies over the last two decades have fundamentally abandoned traditional filmmaking values through the overwhelming use of computer generated imagery, digital touch ups for the actors, and extensive use of green screen technology that replace sets and location shooting. Combined with the shift to digital cinematography, as well as the rise of comic book and franchise cinema, the temptation to augment movies with lavish, computer generated spectacle has proven irresistible to both directors and audiences, to the point that, Dixon argues, 21st-century commercial cinema is so far removed from the real world that it has created a new era of flawless, fake movies. Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, Coordinator of the Film Studies Program, and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA. Among his extensive list of books, he is author of three Palgrave Pivot titles: A Brief History of Comic Book Movies (co-authored with Richard Graham, Palgrave, 2017), Hollywood in Crisis or: The Collapse of the Real (Palgrave, 2016), and Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s (Palgrave, 2015).
  table of contents: 1. Synthetic Cinema: Leaving the Real World -- 2. Service Providers: Form Over Content -- 3. Slaves of Vision: The VR World -- 4. The 21st-Century Movie Machine.
  note: by Wheeler Winston Dixon.
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Culture
  subject:
    topic: Technology
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    topic: Production and direction
  subject:
    topic: Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: Film/TV Technology
  subject:
    topic: Culture and Technology
  subject:
    topic: Film/TV Industry
  subject:
    topic: Film and TV Production
  subject:
    topic: Popular Culture
  classification: PN1993-1999
  classification: 791.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030125714
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12571-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 190205
    record change date: 20191024211427.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-12571-4