Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema

by Lisa Bode

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813579988
• ISBN13: 9780813579986
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher