Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema (Techniques of the Moving Image)
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MUCOO3U |
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| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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 technologica
"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."