Making Believe
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acting
american film
american studies
animation
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Author_Lisa Bode
camera effects
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cinema
cinema studies
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digital
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film
film and video
film studies
filmmaking
films
history and criticism
Hollywood
identity
illusions
mimesis
movie industry
movie studies
movies
moving image
north american film
optical illusion
performing arts
popcorn
proteanism
screen
screen performance
silver screen
social science
special effects
television
television and video
The Walk
Twin Towers
typecasting
VFX
visual effect
visual effects
Product details
- ISBN 9780813579979
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jul 2017
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic situations and scenery. Making Believe sheds new light on these developments by historicizing screen performance within the context of visual and special effects cinema and technological change in Hollywood filmmaking, through the silent, early sound, and current digital eras.
Making Believe incorporates North American film reviews and editorials, actor and crew interviews, trade and fan magazine commentary, actor training manuals, and film production publicity materials to discuss the shifts in screen acting practice and philosophy around transfiguring makeup, doubles, motion capture, and acting to absent places or characters. Along the way it considers how performers and visual and special effects crew work together, and struggle with the industry, critics, and each other to define the aesthetic value of their work, in an industrial system of technological reproduction. Bode opens our eyes to the performing illusions we love and the tensions we experience in wanting to believe in spite of our knowledge that it is all make believe in the end.
Making Believe incorporates North American film reviews and editorials, actor and crew interviews, trade and fan magazine commentary, actor training manuals, and film production publicity materials to discuss the shifts in screen acting practice and philosophy around transfiguring makeup, doubles, motion capture, and acting to absent places or characters. Along the way it considers how performers and visual and special effects crew work together, and struggle with the industry, critics, and each other to define the aesthetic value of their work, in an industrial system of technological reproduction. Bode opens our eyes to the performing illusions we love and the tensions we experience in wanting to believe in spite of our knowledge that it is all make believe in the end.
LISA BODE is a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Queensland.
