Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema (Techniques of the Moving Image)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MUCOO3U |
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| Number of Pages | : | 516 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"This is one of the best and most nuanced discussions of performance and acting in the digital era that I have read or will ever hope to read."
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. 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 c