Date & time
Friday, November 20, 2015
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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The Special Effects Business Is An Oxymoron: An Historical Perspective
Media History Research Centre presents a talk by Julie Turnock
Speaker(s)
Julie Turnock
Cost
This event is free
Organization
Where
Communication Studies and Journalism Building
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Room CJ-1.114
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Employing analyses of industry discourse and global media structures, this talk reveals the historical traces of the smooth corporate rhetoric of “convergence,” “cooperation” and “synergy” that has led to a destabilization in the aesthetic, technology, and labor of these big-budget films.
About the speaker
Julie Turnock is Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Art and Technology in 1970s US Filmmaking (Columbia UP) and has published research on the history of special effects and on digital cinema.