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Making Believe Volumes in the Techniques of the Moving Image series explore the relationship between what we see onscreen and the technical achievements undertaken in filmmaking to make this possible. Books explore some defined aspect of cinema— work from a particular era, work in a particular genre, work by a particular filmmaker or team, work from a particular studio, or work on a particular theme— in light of some technique and/or technical achievement, such as cinematography, direction, acting, lighting, costuming, set design, legal arrangements, agenting, scripting, sound design and recording, and sound or pic- ture editing. Historical and social background contextualize the subject of each volume. Murray Pomerance Series Editor Jay Beck, Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema Lisa Bode, Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon, Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood R. Barton Palmer, Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place Murray Pomerance, The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect Colin Williamson, Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema Joshua Yumibe, Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism Making Believe Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema LISA BODE Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Bode, Lisa, 1970–author. Title: Making believe : screen performance and special effects in popular cinema / Lisa Bode. Description: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2017. | Series: Techniques of the moving image Identifiers: LCCN 2016043412| ISBN 9780813579986 (hardback) | ISBN 9780813579979 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780813579993 (e- book (epub)) Subjects: LCSH: Cinematography—Special effects. | Digital cinematography. | Human locomotion—Com- puter simulation. | Movement (Acting)—Technique. | BISAC: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / His- tory & Criticism. | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Television & Video. | COMPUTERS / Digital Media / Video & Animation. | ART / Film & Video. Classification: LCC TR858 .B63 2017 | DDC 791.4302/4—dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043412 A British Cataloging- in- Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2017 by Lisa Bode All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibi- tion is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Informa- tion Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48– 1992. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org Manufactured in the United States of America To Scot Contents Introduction 1 1 Acting through Machines: Fidelity and Expression from Cameras to Mo- Cap 18 2 Behind Rubber and Pixels: Mimesis, Seamlessness, and Acting Achievement 43 3 In Another’s Skin: Typecasting, Identity, and the Limits of Proteanism 70 4 Double Trouble: Authenticity, Fakery, and Concealed Performance Labor 99 5 Performing with Themselves: Versatility, Timing, and Nuance in Multiple Roles 128 6 There Is No There There: Making Believe in Composite Screen Space 154 Conclusion 184 Acknowledgments 195 Notes 197 Index 223 vii Making Believe