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Bukatman, Scott. Matters of Gravity: Special
Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 279pp. ISBN 0822331322 (hc).
Preface
... xi
Acknowledgments ... xv
Introduction ... 1
ONE: REMEMBERING CYBERSPACE
- There's Always . . .
Tomorrowland: Disney and the Hypercinematic Experience ... 13
- Gibson's Typewriter
... 32
- X-Bodies: The Torment
of the Mutant Superhero (1994) ... 48
TWO:
KALEIDOSCOPIC PERCEPTIONS
- The Artifical
Infinite: On Special Effects and the Sublime ... 81
- The Ultimate Trip:
Special Effects and Kaleidoscopic Perception ... 111
THREE:
THE GRACE OF BEINGS
- Taking Shape: Morphing
the Performance of Self ... 133
- Syncopated City: New
York in Musical Film (1929-1961) ... 157
- The Boys in the Hoods:
A Song of the Urban Superhero ... 184
Notes
... 225
Bibliography ... 257
Index ... 270
Reviews:
- Poole, Stephen. "'Everything is Known to
Us': Matters of Gravity, Scott Bukatman's survey of the superhero
figure in comics and films, has Stephen Poole Engrossed." The Guardian, 26 June 2004. on-line
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