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Roto and the Human Figure

Benjamin Bratt

Benjamin Bratt is a visual effects artist based out of Dallas, Texas who has worked as a digital artist on recent movies such as Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Race to Witch Mountain, Obsessed, and The Proposal. He is currently the lead compositor at Radium/Reel FX in Dallas. Clients include the Dallas Cowboys, Coors, Ram Truck, and more. Benjamin has also taught Visual Effects and Rotoscoping classes at the Academy of Art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Rotoscoping : Techniques and Tools for the Aspiring Artist

Focal Press, 2011

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... Roto and the human FiguRe A good portion of a roto artist’s day is spent isolating human figures. The reasons vary quite often, but in most cases your focus object (or objects) will be human beings for which mattes must be created...

For an Ethics of the Cinema

Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben

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Cinema and Agamben : Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Translated by John V. Garner and Colin Williamson Type In his “Notes sur les Tableaux parisiens de Baudelaire,” drafted in French during the last years of his exile in Paris, Walter Benjamin evokes a “nightmare” familiar to anyone who...

Rabid (2002)

Directed by

David Cronenberg

Written by

David Cronenberg

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...Hilly Country Road ‒ Day A large, black, powerful-looking motorcycle waits propped up on its center stand on the gravel shoulder of a deserted country road. The gold lettering on its tank and side covers identifies it as a Norton Commando...

Auditing the Call Centre Voice: Accented Speech and Listening in Sonali Gulati’s Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night (2005)

Pooja Rangan

Pooja Rangan

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Vocal Projections : Voices in Documentary

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...What can we learn from call centres about the place of voice in documentary? Although these two sites – the offshore call centre and documentary’s vocal conventions – may seem at first to have little to do with each other, I will suggest...

Stereoscopic Basis and Techniques

Celine Tricart

Celine Tricart is an independent filmmaker and stereographer (aka 3D specialist) who is particularly interested in storytelling for stereoscopic cinema. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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3D Filmmaking : Techniques and Best Practices for Stereoscopic Filmmakers

Routledge, 2017

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... Stereoscopic Basis and Techniques Now that we have studied the specifics of 3D vision and his- These parameters have a direct effect on the final tory, it is time to explain how to make a stereoscopic movie impression of 3D...

VR Headsets and Other Human–VR Interfaces

Celine Tricart

Celine Tricart is an independent filmmaker and stereographer (aka 3D specialist) who is particularly interested in storytelling for stereoscopic cinema. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtual Reality Filmmaking : Techniques & Best Practices for VR Filmmakers

Focal Press, 2018

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... VR Headsets and Other Human–VR Interfaces In this chapter are listed the current means of interfac- most important specs and requirements of the current ing with virtual reality. From VR headsets to controllers VR headsets and what...

Feminism and Film Since the 1990s

Barbara Creed

Barbara Creed

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The Cinema Book

British Film Institute, 2007

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...River Phoenix in My Own Private IdahoFeminist film theory will soon be entering its 40th year. While some post-feminists have declared that the feminist movement is over, others are more optimistic, preparing to celebrate the dictum that,...

Shivers (2002)

Directed by

David Cronenberg

Written by

David Cronenberg

Screenplay

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...Starliner Towers Apartment Complex ‒ Morning Starliner Towers is seen in LS through the windshield of a moving car. The car approaches the complex and stops near the main doors of the West Tower. Out of the car climb Kresimir and Benda...

Biopolitics of Gesture

Pasi Väliaho

Pasi Väliaho

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Cinema and Agamben : Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The genealogy that Giorgio Agamben provides for cinema in his short but powerful text “Notes on Gesture” strikes in its singularity. Rather than thinking of cinema as an art of optical spectacles, he approaches the medium in terms...

From Freezing to Touching

Janna Houwen

Janna Houwen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Film and Video Intermediality : The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...With straightened backs and deadpan expressions, about forty police officers pose together in what seems to be a conventional group portrait. Because of the static poses held by the portrayed figures, the large image projected on the wall...