Making faces, playing God : identity and the art of transformational makeup / Thomas Morawetz.
"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 maekup for theater, movies, and television fulfills this...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2001]
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| Summary: | "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 maekup for theater, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other.""--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 234 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 0292752466 9780292752467 0292752474 9780292752474 |