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Nick Jones

Nick Jones

About​

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Nick Jones is Senior Lecturer in Film, Television and Digital Culture at the University of York, UK. He is the author of three books, including most recently Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface (2023), which was awarded runner up Best Monograph by the British Association of Film and Screen Studies. He has published widely on digital effects, 3D, popular cinema, and film and spatial theory.

Areas of Focus​

Blockbuster cinema; digital 3D; digital spaces; media archaeology; VFX aesthetics; VFX breakdowns; VFX production cultures; the graphic user interface; convergence

Relevant Publications​

Far from Houdini: The ‘Magic’ of the VFX Breakdown (2023)

Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface (2023)

Spaces Mapped and Monstrous: Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture (2020)

The Flexible Urban Imaginary: Postindustrial Cities in Inception, The Adjustment Bureau and Doctor Strange (2019)

This is My World: Spatial Representation in the Resident Evil Films (2016)

Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory (2015)

Quantification and Substitution: The Abstract Space of Virtual Cinematography (2013)

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