The Vatican to Vegas - A History of Special Effects

A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, The Vatican to Vegas takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today. The 'scripted spaces' described by Norman M. Klein are punctuated with devices widely used in special effects since 1500: shocks, surprise twists, grand fakes and copies. Since its first publication 2004, The Vatican To Vegas has emerged as a classic across many fields, from media and architecture, to the fine arts and urban planning. Its timing was ironic: Klein assumed in 2004 that the future of scripted illusion was about to radically shift. This new edition brings the ironic story up to the present, and into the digitally overwhelmed 'scripted spaces' of the future.

Product details

• Authors: Norman M. Klein
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2024
• EAN: 9783837661699
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6169-9
• No. of pages: 530
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 38 mm x 242 mm
• Weight: 813 g
• Illustrations: 49 SW-Abb., 11 Farbabb.
• Series: Architekturen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Soziologie, Architektur, Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk, Cinema, special effects, Animation, City, Photography & photographs, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Medienwissenschaften, Cultural History, Architecture, Space, Media, Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Humangeographie, Theory of art, European History, Freizeitgestaltung, Darstellende Kunst, Urban Studies, The arts: general issues, ART / General, Social interaction, Social & cultural history, ART / History / Baroque & Rococo, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Popular Culture, ART / American / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, History of art / art & design styles, The arts, Communities, Media History, auseinandersetzen, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Art & design styles: Baroque, History of the Americas, Human Geography, Electronic, holographic & video art, Film Theory & Criticism, Scripted Spaces, Theming, Kunst: allgemeine Themen, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, History, geographic treatment, biography, Public performances, History of North America, American literature in English, Computer art (Digital art), History of Europe, Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography