The Vatican to Vegas
The History of Special Effects
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Word Count
126,500 words, Guess
Page Count
506 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8666791M
- ISBN-139781565848030
- ISBN-101565848039
- OCLC Control Number52386451
- OCLC Control Numbervaticantovegashi0000klei
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003054126
- Goodreads698128
- LibraryThing333399
Classifications
- LCCTR858.K63 2004
Description
"A guided tour through the magical world of illusions, 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 Klein are punctuated with devices widely used in special effects: shocks, surprise twists, grand fakes, and copies. These elaborate deceptions allow the viewer to assume the role of a central character. But, as Klein points out, real power in this world of fakery rests with whoever controls the illusion - be it the pope, the president, the imagineer, the designer, or the studio executive."--Jacket.
First Sentence
For decades, the phrase Loose Slots was repeated on signs along the Las Vegas Strip, a pun on "getting lucky" (slots as in "sluts"), to go with the flyers reminding visitors that "it's" legal here.
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