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. Making Believe sheds light on these developments by historicizing screen performance within the context of special effects cinema and technological change in Hollywood filmmaking.

Introduction
 

1 Acting Through Machines: Fidelity and Expression from Cameras to Mo-Cap

2 Behind Rubber and Pixels: Mimesis, Seamlessness, and Acting Achievement

3 In Another’s Skin: Typecasting, Identity, and the Limits of Proteanism

4 Double Trouble: Authenticity, Fakery, and Concealed Performance Labor

5 Performing with Themselves: Versatility, Timing, and Nuance in Multiple Roles

6 There Is No There There: Making Believe in Composite Screen Space
 

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

LISA BODE is a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Queensland.