The first academic work to tackle the issue of French special effects, the diversity of approaches, authors, genres and periods covered makes this a unique resource of its kind and a complete and unpublished reference of analytical elements on the subject.
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Les effets spéciaux en France
Réjane Hamus-Vallée, Giusy Pisano
Designed in 1787, the Panorama offered the public a grandiose representation giving the feeling of visiting a city or reliving a historical event.
Jean-Roch Bouiller, Ségolène Le Men
Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929) is one of the undisputed masters in first cinematographic tricks and early coloring of moving images / early moving images coloring.
Truqueur, coloriste, cinématographiste… et pionnier du cinématographe
Réjane Hamus-Vallée, Jacques Malthête
Circus and cinema have often been thought together for a long time, but in terms of themes and incorporation: it is the cinema which seizes the circus to appropriate its universe, its characters, its stories, and vice versa. But the fruitfulness of the links that unite the two practices can not be limited to a one way ticket. Circus and cinema...
Intermédialité et circulation des formes circassiennes
Sébastien Denis, Jérémy Houillère
From the stage to the cinema, from television to augmented and virtual realities, from circus performances to aquatic shows, the magician's practice has not ceased to be renewed and metamorphosed.
Frank Kessler, Jean-Marc Larrue
Long despised by the critics, popular shows are studied in this book as a media culture evolving through different forms of aural and visual representations, theatre, cinema, music-hall and others, often with a hypermediatic dimension.
Spectacles populaires et culture médiatique 1870-1950
Pascale Alexandre-Bergues, Martin Laliberté
