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Meta-Morphing - Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change (Paperback) Loot Price: R596
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Meta-Morphing - Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change (Paperback): Vivian Sobchack

Meta-Morphing - Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change (Paperback)

Vivian Sobchack

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Two thousand years ago, Ovid asked his readers to imagine metamorphoses in which men and women became flowers and beasts. Today, before our cinema-savvy eyes, people melt and re-form as altogether new creatures: they "morph." This volume explores what digital morphing means -- both as a cultural practice specific to our times and as a link to a much broader history of images of human transformation.

Meta-Morphing ranges over topics that include turn-of-the-century "quick-change" artists, Mesoamerican shamanic transformation, and cosmetic surgery; recent works such as Terminator 2, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Heavenly Creatures, and Forrest Gump; and the transformations imagined by Kafka, Proust, and Burroughs. The contributors look not only at the technical wizardry behind digital morphing, but also at the history and cultural concerns it expresses.

General

Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2000
First published: 2000
Authors: Vivian Sobchack
Dimensions: 229 x 149 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3319-7
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN: 0-8166-3319-3
Barcode: 9780816633197

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