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Making faces, playing God

by Thomas Morawetz

ImpersonationTheatrical makeupSelf-perception

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".

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Book data: Open Library