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  1. The making of Incarnation
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Jonathan Cape, London

    Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian... more

    Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Bibliothek
    Magazin Lit McCarthy, T. 2021
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Famous for producing solid light tracks that captured the path of workers' movements, Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data. Did she also, as her broken correspondence with a young Soviet physicist suggests, discover in her final days a 'perfect' movement, one that would 'change everything'? An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan, as well as his collaborators and antagonists, across geopolitical fault lines and experimental zones: medical labs, CGI studios, military research centres... Places where the frontiers of potential - to cure, kill, understand or entertain - are constantly tested. And all the while, work is underway on the blockbuster film Incarnation, on epic space tragedy

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1787333302; 9781787333307; 9781787333291; 1787333299
    Subjects: Perpetual motion; Motion study; Time study; Human-machine systems; Motion pictures; Copyright; Human mechanics; Intellectual property; Motion pictures ; Production and direction; Physicists; Science fiction; Cyberpunk fiction; Novels; Fiction
    Other subjects: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller
    Scope: 327 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Simultaneously published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021]