Dear all,

 

With apologies for cross-posting, you are invited to join us for the following symposium:

 

Reconsidering Movie Special Effects: Aesthetics, Reception, and Remediation

Wednesday 8 March, 2017, 1.30pm-6pm

HUMSS Building Rm 124, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading

 

In an era in which digital visual effects are ubiquitous, questions of aesthetic achievement and imaginative and creative labour are central to industry and public discourses on special effects craft.

At the same time, this ubiquity and its reception obscure the long aesthetic and craft histories of cinematic special effects, histories that are nostalgically invoked in much contemporary digital media practice.

This symposium will seek to unpick this complex web of relations between histories of reception, craft, and artistic endeavour in a reappraisal of the ‘special effect’ and its contemporary manifestations. 

 

1.30pm Coffee and welcome

 

2pm

Lisa Bode (Queensland), ‘Being There: Screen Performers, Greenscreen, and Imaginary Interactions’

Frances A. Kamm (Kent), ‘“A Strange Netherworld”: The Motion-Capture Films of Robert Zemeckis’

Lisa Purse (Reading), ‘Nostalgic textures: exploitation redux in digital genre cinema’

 

3.30pm Coffee break

 

4pm

Nick Jones (QMUL), ‘Depth Labour: Crafting 3D Cinema’

Andrew Elliott (Lincoln), ‘Special Effects and CGI in the Epic Film’

William Brown (Roehampton), ‘Wakaliwood: Where supercinema meets non-cinema’

 

5.30pm

Closing discussion

 

Those who wish to are welcome to join us for a bite to eat after the symposium closes.

 

To book your free place at the symposium, please click on the following link (Eventbrite): http://tinyurl.com/jvdhl4e

Please share with interested colleagues.

Best wishes,

Lisa Purse (University of Reading) and Lisa Bode (University of Queensland)

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