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Making Believe

Lisa Bode
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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Lisa Bode EAN: 9780813579986 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 540 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Rutgers University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-07-07 CITY: GENRE: PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Acting techniques, Films, cinema, Film history, theory or criticism, Media studies, Television technology

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      Lisa Bode is a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Queensland.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Lisa Bode EAN: 9780813579986 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 540 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Rutgers University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-07-07 CITY: GENRE: PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Acting techniques, Films, cinema, Film history, theory or criticism, Media studies, Television technology

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      Lisa Bode is a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Queensland.

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