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Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema (Techniques of the Moving Image),Used
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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.
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- Q: What is the main focus of 'Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema'? A: The book explores the evolution of screen performance and special effects in popular cinema, particularly in the context of digital effects and how they have transformed Hollywood filmmaking across different eras.
- Q: Who is the author of this book? A: The author of 'Making Believe' is Lisa Bode.
- Q: When was 'Making Believe' published? A: The book was published on July 7, 2017.
- Q: What topics does the book cover regarding screen acting? A: The book discusses shifts in screen acting practice and philosophy, including the use of makeup, motion capture, and the collaboration between performers and visual effects crews.
- Q: How many pages does 'Making Believe' have? A: The book contains 246 pages.
- Q: What type of binding is used for this book? A: This edition of 'Making Believe' is available in paperback binding.
- Q: Is there an edition number for this book? A: There is no specific edition number for 'Making Believe'.
- Q: What category does this book fall under? A: The book is categorized under Acting & Auditioning.
- Q: Does the book include interviews or reviews? A: Yes, 'Making Believe' incorporates North American film reviews, editorials, interviews with actors and crew, and commentary from trade and fan magazines.
- Q: What aspects of Hollywood filmmaking does the book address? A: The book addresses technological changes in Hollywood filmmaking, focusing on the silent, early sound, and current digital eras.