Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century - Scott Bukatman - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822331322 - July 21, 2003
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Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century


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Features essays on cinema, the body, and the experience of modernity. Focusing on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture, this book reveals how popular culture tames the threats posed by technology and urban modernity, by immersing people in kinetic environments like those traversed by Plastic Man and Superman.


296 pages, 55 illus.,17 in color

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 21, 2003
ISBN13 9780822331322
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 296
Dimensions 140 × 260 × 20 mm   ·   589 g
Language English  

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