TY - GEN T1 - The eyes have it : cinema and the reality effect T2 - Techniques of the moving image. A1 - Pomerance, Murray, 1946- LA - English PP - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2013 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn852899309 AB - This book explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences - including The Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, and Signs - the author journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930s to the 2000s to show how the viewer's experience of "reality" is put in context, challenged, and willfully engaged. Four meditations deal with "reality effects" from different philosophical and technical angles. "Vivid Rivals" assesses active participation and critical judgment in seeing effects with such works as Defiance, Cloverfield, Knowing, Thelma & Louise, and more. "The Two of Us" considers double placement and doubled experience with such films as The Prestige, Niagara, and A Stolen Life. "Being There" discusses cinematic performance and the problems of believability, highlighting such films as Gran Torino, The Manchurian Candidate, In Harm's Way, and other films. "A Fairy Tale" explores the art of scenic backing, focusing on the fictional world of Brigadoon, which borrows from both hard-edged realism and evocative landscape painting. -- Publisher's website OP - 268 CN - PN1995.9.R3 P66 2013eb SN - 9780813560601 SN - 0813560608 SN - 9781461934974 SN - 1461934974 SN - 9781299733640 SN - 1299733646 SN - 9780813560595 SN - 0813560594 SN - 9780813560588 SN - 0813560586 KW - Realism in motion pictures. KW - Réalisme au cinéma. KW - ART : Film & Video. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : General. KW - Realism in motion pictures KW - Electronic book. ER -