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Making Faces, Playing God: Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup

Autor Thomas Morawetz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2001
Wearing a mask—putting on another face—embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other."
Morawetz begins by discussing the cultural role of fantasies of transformation and what these fantasies reveal about questions of personal identity. He next turns to professional makeup artists and describes their background, training, careers, and especially the techniques they use to create their art. Then, with numerous before-during-and-after photos of transformational makeups from popular and little-known shows and movies, ads, and artist's demos and portfolios, he reveals the art and imagination that go into six kinds of mask-making—representing demons, depicting aliens, inventing disguises, transforming actors into different (older, heavier, disfigured) versions of themselves, and creating historical or mythological characters.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292752474
ISBN-10: 0292752474
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: 121 colour and 100 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 178 x 251 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Thomas Morawetz, Tapping Reeve Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Connecticut School of Law, writes avocationally on modern literature, non-fiction, mysteries, and movies. His interest in movie-making extends over thirty-five years.

Cuprins

  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Culture and Art of Transformation
    • 1. The Significance and Invention of Faces
    • 2. The Culture of Transformation
    • 3. The Art of Transformation
  • Part II: The Practice of Transformation
    • 4. The Demonic
    • 5. Aliens
    • 6. Disguise for Its Own Sake
    • 7. Variant Selves
    • 8. Impersonation
    • 9. Beyond Human
  • Afterthoughts
  • Photo Credits

Descriere

In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills the fundamental human fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the othe