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Author Bode, Lisa, 1970- author.

Title Making believe : screen performance and special effects in popular cinema / Lisa Bode.

Publication Info. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Techniques of the Moving Image
Techniques of the moving image.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-222) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Acting through machines : fidelity and expression from cameras to Mo-Cap -- Behind rubber and pixels : mimesis, seamlessness, and acting achievement -- In another's skin : typecasting, identity, and the limits of proteanism -- Double trouble : authenticity, fakery, and concealed performance labor -- Performing with themselves : versatility, timing, and nuance in multiple roles -- There is no there there : making believe in composite screen space -- Conclusion.
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Subject Cinematography -- Special effects.
Cinematography -- Special effects.
Digital cinematography.
Digital cinematography.
Human locomotion -- Computer simulation.
Human locomotion -- Computer simulation.
Human locomotion.
Movement (Acting) -- Technique.
Movement (Acting) -- Technique.
Movement (Acting)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bode, Lisa, 1970- Making believe. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2017 9780813579986 (DLC) 2016043412 (OCoLC)959034567
ISBN 9780813580005 (electronic book)
0813580005 (electronic book)
9780813579986
0813579988
9780813579979
081357997X
9780813579993 (e-book (epub)