Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century

Scott Bukatman

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Matters of Gravity

Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century

Scott Bukatman

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384892

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About this book

Accessible and wide-ranging essays on cinema, the body, and the experience of modernity.

Author / Editor information

Scott Bukatman is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He is the author of Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction, published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“Matters of Gravity is more than a collection of tour de force essays, although it is certainly that. It maps an important theoretical and critical project, reclaiming the ‘lively arts’ and exploring the kinetic and affective dimensions of popular culture. Scott Bukatman’s breathless prose and conceptual pyrotechnics embody popular culture’s dynamism, making us feel it, making us want to dance it. His writing crackles with wit, sparkles with vividness, and throbs with his own passionate engagement with his topic.”—Henry Jenkins, coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture

“Scott Bukatman is one of the very top figures in the attempt of cultural studies to understand modernity by looking at the interlocking of such phenomena as urbanism, new forms of masculinity, new technologies, and the role of the body.”—Dana Polan, author of the British Film Institute books In a Lonely Place and Pulp Fiction

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE. REMEMBERING CYBERSPACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
TWO. KALEIDOSCOPIC PERCEPTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
THREE. THE GRACE OF BEINGS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 312
Illustrations
- Other: 55 illus.,17 in color

eBook

Published: July 21, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384892