Meta-morphing : visual transformation and the culture of quick-change /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sobchack, Vivian Carol
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2000]
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Table of Contents:
  • "Twenty-five heads under one hat": quick-change in the 1890s / Matthew Solomon
  • Animation and animorphs: a brief disappearing act / Norman M. Klein
  • Magical transformations: morphing and metamorphosis in two cultures / Louise Krasniewicz
  • From mutation to morphing: cultural transformations from Greek myth to children's media culture / Marsha Kinder
  • A brief history of morphing / Mark J.P. Wolf
  • Tracing the Tesseract: a conceptual prehistory of the morph / Kevin Fisher
  • "At the still point of the turning world": meta-morphing and meta-stasis / Vivian Sobchack
  • After Arnold: narratives of the posthuman cinema / Roger Warren Beebe
  • Morphing Saint Sebastian: masochism and masculinity in Forrest Gump / Joseba Gabilondo
  • Beyond the body: Orlan and the material morph / Victoria Duckett
  • Taking shape: morphing and the performance of self / Scott Bukatman
  • Special effects, morphing magic, and the 1990s cinema of attractions / Angela Ndalianis.