{"product_id":"9780813560601","title":"The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Eyes Have It\u003c\/i\u003e explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences—including T\u003ci\u003ehe Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSigns\u003c\/i\u003e—Murray Pomerance journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930s to the 2000s to show how the viewer's experience of \"reality\" is put in context, challenged, and willfully engaged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour meditations deal with “reality effects” from different philosophical and technical angles. “Vivid Rivals” assesses active participation and critical judgment in seeing effects with such works as \u003ci\u003eDefiance, Cloverfield, Knowing, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThelma \u0026amp; Louise\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. “The Two of Us” considers double placement and doubled experience with such films as \u003ci\u003eThe Prestige, Niagara, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Stolen Life\u003c\/i\u003e. “Being There” discusses cinematic performance and the problems of believability, highlighting such films as \u003ci\u003eGran Torino, The Manchurian Candidate, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn Harm’s Way\u003c\/i\u003e, and other films. “Fairy Land” explores the art of scenic backing, focusing on the fictional world of \u003ci\u003eBrigadoon, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich borrows from both hard-edged realism and evocative landscape painting.","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079924072688,"sku":"9780813560601","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780813560601_p0.jpg?v=1763739652","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780813560601","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}