Publication

2001 - University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, United States

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC791.43027
  • LCCPN2068.M59 2001
  • LCCPN2068 .M59 2001

Description

Wearing a mask embodies a human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. This volume explores how the creation of transformational make-up for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other".

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Making faces, playing God: identity and the art of transformational makeup.University of Texas Press2001-01-01

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