'Liquid Metal' book Sean Redmond

I found this book very interesting even though it was mainly about science fiction films as most points applied to Fantasy Franchise. There also was a clear distinction between sci-fi and fantasy, which was interesting.

Whilst reading the introduction this quote was interesting:

We live in a world where the mass media in general calls upon the science fiction text to sell cinema seats, boost ratings or to connect or engage people from acroos the globe.

A quote, which applied to CGI came from Barry Keith Grant's article 'Sensuous Elaboration' in the book.

Special effects are 'filmic moments of a radically filmic character', for they seek to achieve unreality as realistically as possible- to engage 'our belief, not our suspension of disbelief'. We marvel at special effects images at once for their fantastic content and for the power of their realisation. They announce the powers of cinema while taming the imagination through the very fact of visual represention. This visualisation for the camera pulls the images from speculuation to spectacle' Page 19