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 …

By developing the concept of the "digital effects emblem, " Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies. An "effects emblem" is a spectacular, computer-gen …

In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the late 1890s …

Today, we are so accustomed to consuming the amplified lives of film stars that the origins of the phenomenon may seem inevitable in retrospect. But the conjunction of the terms "movie" and …

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the ‘trick films’of the early silent era, which astounded audiences by splicingin or ed …

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the ‘trick films’of the early silent era, which astounded audiences by splicingin or ed …