Meta-morphing : visual transformation and the culture of quick-change
Print Book, English, 2000
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2000
xxiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780816633180, 9780816633197, 0816633185, 0816633193
42475488
"Twenty-five heads under one hat": quick-change in the 1890s / Matthew Solomon
Animation and animorphs: a brief disappearing act / Norman M. Klein
Magical transformations: morphing and metamorphosis in two cultures / Louise Krasniewicz
From mutation to morphing: cultural transformations from Greek myth to children's media culture / Marsha Kinder
A brief history of morphing / Mark J.P. Wolf
Tracing the Tesseract: a conceptual prehistory of the morph / Kevin Fisher
"At the still point of the turning world": meta-morphing and meta-stasis / Vivian Sobchack
After Arnold: narratives of the posthuman cinema / Roger Warren Beebe
Morphing Saint Sebastian: masochism and masculinity in Forrest Gump / Joseba Gabilondo
Beyond the body: Orlan and the material morph / Victoria Duckett
Taking shape: morphing and the performance of self / Scott Bukatman
Special effects, morphing magic, and the 1990s cinema of attractions / Angela Ndalianis