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