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The Vatican to Vegas

A History of Special Effects

dc.contributor.authorKlein, Norman M.
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-30T09:31:41Z
dc.date.available2025-11-30T09:31:41Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.submitted2025-08-11T07:37:20Z
dc.identifierONIX_20250811T093522_9783839461693_4
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105349
dc.identifier.urihttps://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/207351
dc.description.abstractA 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesArchitekturen
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
dc.subject.otherAnimation
dc.subject.otherSpecial Effects
dc.subject.otherCinema
dc.subject.otherScripted Spaces
dc.subject.otherTheming
dc.subject.otherCity
dc.subject.otherMedia
dc.subject.otherSpace
dc.subject.otherUrban Studies
dc.subject.otherMedia History
dc.subject.otherCultural History
dc.subject.otherMedia Studies
dc.titleThe Vatican to Vegas
dc.title.alternativeA History of Special Effects
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7e97f9b9-be2b-4d9c-a928-3c8ebdfa443c
oapen.relation.isbn9783839461693
oapen.relation.isbn9783837661699
oapen.imprinttranscript
oapen.pages530
dc.seriesnumber87


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