Description:
With the rise of digital effects in cinema the human performer is increasingly the only "real" element on screen. Making Believe sheds new light on screen performance by historicizing it within the context of visual and special effects cinema and technological change in filmmaking, through the silent, early sound, and current digital eras.
Review Quotes: "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."--Adrienne L. McLean "author of Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema"