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Dr Lisa Bode
Dr

Lisa Bode

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Overview

Background

Lisa Bode lectures in Film and Television Studies at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2017), which historicizes screen performance within the context of visual and special effects cinema and technological change in Hollywood filmmaking, through the silent, early sound, and current digital eras, in order to shed light on the ways that digital filmmaking processes such as motion capture, digital face-replacement, and green-screen acting are impacting screen acting and stardom. She has published work in edited collections and journals on the implications of digital filmmaking technologies for synthetic media; screen acting and stardom, the cultural reception of the synthespian, mock documentary performance, and the processes through which dead Hollywood stars are remembered, forgotten, or re-animated. She co-edited the August 2021 special issue of Convergence on Digital Faces and Deepfakes on screen, and is currently writing a monograph for Rutgers University Press called Deepfakes and Digital Bodies.

She is on the editorial board for the series Animation: Key Films / Filmmakers (Bloomsbury Academic, and Animation Studies, the open-access peer-reviewed journal for The Society for Animation Studies. In 2020 she co-founded the Visual Effects Research Network with Associate Professor Leon Gurevitch

Availability

Dr Lisa Bode is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of New South Wales
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales

Research interests

  • visual and special effects

    digital bodies, deepfakes, history of visual and special effects, VFX aesthetics, critical reception, vernacular VFX, platform media, AI art and media

  • film history

    Hollywood, early cinema, transformations in style, cultural shaping of technical innovations, aesthetic transformations

  • screen acting

    screen performance, screen actors, performance styles, screen performance and genre, historical transformations in performance, critical reception

Works

Search Professor Lisa Bode’s works on UQ eSpace

23 works between 2001 and 2022

1 - 20 of 23 works

Featured

2022

Book Chapter

From holy grail to deepfake: the evolving digital face on screen

Bode, Lisa (2022). From holy grail to deepfake: the evolving digital face on screen. Faces on screen: new approaches. (pp. 288-302) edited by Alice Maurice. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781474493802-023

From holy grail to deepfake: the evolving digital face on screen

Featured

2021

Journal Article

Editorial the digital face and deepfakes on screen

Bode, Lisa, Lees, Dominic and Golding, Daniel (2021). Editorial the digital face and deepfakes on screen. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27 (4), 135485652110340-854. doi: 10.1177/13548565211034044

Editorial the digital face and deepfakes on screen

Featured

2021

Journal Article

Deepfaking Keanu: YouTube deepfakes, platform visual effects, and the complexity of reception

Bode, Lisa (2021). Deepfaking Keanu: YouTube deepfakes, platform visual effects, and the complexity of reception. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27 (4), 135485652110304-934. doi: 10.1177/13548565211030454

Deepfaking Keanu: YouTube deepfakes, platform visual effects, and the complexity of reception

Featured

2019

Book Chapter

The uncanny valley

Bode, Lisa (2019). The uncanny valley. The animation studies reader. (pp. 59-68) edited by Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle and Caroline Ruddell. New York NY United States: Bloomsbury Academic.

The uncanny valley

Featured

2018

Journal Article

“It's a Fake!”: early and late incredulous viewers, trick effects, and CGI

Bode, Lisa (2018). “It's a Fake!”: early and late incredulous viewers, trick effects, and CGI. Film History, 30 (4), 1-21. doi: 10.2979/filmhistory.30.4.01

“It's a Fake!”: early and late incredulous viewers, trick effects, and CGI

Featured

2017

Book

Making believe: screen performance and special effects in popular cinema

Bode, Lisa (2017). Making believe: screen performance and special effects in popular cinema. New Brunswick, NJ, United States: Rutgers University Press. doi: 10.36019/9780813580005

Making believe: screen performance and special effects in popular cinema

Featured

2015

Book Chapter

Fleshing it out: prosthetic makeup effects, motion capture and the reception of performance

Bode, Lisa (2015). Fleshing it out: prosthetic makeup effects, motion capture and the reception of performance. Special effects: new histories, theories, contexts. (pp. 32-44) edited by Dan North, Bob Rehak and Michael Duffy. London , United Kingdom: British Film Institute, Palgrave Macmillan.

Fleshing it out: prosthetic makeup effects, motion capture and the reception of performance

Featured

2010

Journal Article

No longer themselves? Framing digitally enabled posthumous "performance"

Bode, Lisa (2010). No longer themselves? Framing digitally enabled posthumous "performance". Cinema Journal, 49 (4), 46-70. doi: 10.1353/cj.2010.0019

No longer themselves? Framing digitally enabled posthumous "performance"

2022

Journal Article

Review of Alternative Realities, Carl Plantinga, Rutgers University Press, 2021

Bode, Lisa (2022). Review of Alternative Realities, Carl Plantinga, Rutgers University Press, 2021. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 62 (4), 706-708. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayab045

Review of Alternative Realities, Carl Plantinga, Rutgers University Press, 2021

2022

Book Chapter

2015. Movies and female agency

Bode, Lisa (2022). 2015. Movies and female agency. American cinema of the 2010s: themes and variations. (pp. 147-171) edited by Dennis Bingham. New Brunswick, NJ United States: Rutgers University Press. doi: 10.36019/9781978814868-008

2015. Movies and female agency

2021

Journal Article

Seeking connections across constellations: a reflection on Tom O’Regan

Bode, Lisa (2021). Seeking connections across constellations: a reflection on Tom O’Regan. Continuum, 35 (3), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2021.1902155

Seeking connections across constellations: a reflection on Tom O’Regan

2016

Book Chapter

The afterlives of Rudolph Valentino and Wallace Reid in the 1920s and 1930s

Bode, Lisa (2016). The afterlives of Rudolph Valentino and Wallace Reid in the 1920s and 1930s. Lasting screen stars: images that fade and personas that endure. (pp. 159-172) edited by Lucy Bolton and Julie Lobalzo Wright. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-40733-7_12

The afterlives of Rudolph Valentino and Wallace Reid in the 1920s and 1930s

2014

Journal Article

Fade out/fade in: dead 1920s and 1930s Hollywood stars and the mechanisms of posthumous stardom

Bode, Lisa (2014). Fade out/fade in: dead 1920s and 1930s Hollywood stars and the mechanisms of posthumous stardom. Celebrity Studies, 5 (1-2), 90-92. doi: 10.1080/19392397.2014.887525

Fade out/fade in: dead 1920s and 1930s Hollywood stars and the mechanisms of posthumous stardom

2013

Journal Article

Review of The horror sensorium: media and the senses

Bode, Lisa (2013). Review of The horror sensorium: media and the senses. Screening the Past (36)

Review of The horror sensorium: media and the senses

2010

Journal Article

‘Conspicuous absence’ and ‘morbid curiosity’: The promotion and reception of Saratoga (USA 1937)

Bode, Lisa (2010). ‘Conspicuous absence’ and ‘morbid curiosity’: The promotion and reception of Saratoga (USA 1937). Screening the Past (28), 1-11.

‘Conspicuous absence’ and ‘morbid curiosity’: The promotion and reception of Saratoga (USA 1937)

2010

Journal Article

Transitional tastes: Teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight

Bode, Lisa (2010). Transitional tastes: Teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 24 (5), 707-719. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2010.505327

Transitional tastes: Teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight

2009

Journal Article

Performance, race, mock-documentary and the Australian national imaginary in The Nominees

Bode, Lisa (2009). Performance, race, mock-documentary and the Australian national imaginary in The Nominees. Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 28 (3), 68-81.

Performance, race, mock-documentary and the Australian national imaginary in The Nominees

2008

Conference Publication

'Casting from Forest Lawn Cemetary': Re-Animating dead screen stars

Bode, Lisa (2008). 'Casting from Forest Lawn Cemetary': Re-Animating dead screen stars. ISEA2008: The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Singapore, 25 July - 3 August 2008. Singapore: ISEA2008 Pte Ltd.

'Casting from Forest Lawn Cemetary': Re-Animating dead screen stars

2008

Journal Article

'It's a joke, sir': Chris Lilley's comedy of character, performance and taboo

Bode, Lisa (2008). 'It's a joke, sir': Chris Lilley's comedy of character, performance and taboo. Metro Magazine, 157, 138-143.

'It's a joke, sir': Chris Lilley's comedy of character, performance and taboo

2007

Book Chapter

'Grave robbing' or 'career comeback'? On the digital resurrection of dead screen stars

Bode, L. (2007). 'Grave robbing' or 'career comeback'? On the digital resurrection of dead screen stars. History of Stardom Reconsidered. (pp. 36-40) edited by Kallioniemi, K., Karki, K., Makela, J. and Salmi, H.. Online - HPC (http://iipc.utu.fi/reconsidered/): Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture.

'Grave robbing' or 'career comeback'? On the digital resurrection of dead screen stars

Funding

Past funding

  • 2010 - 2012
    Screen acting and digital film-making processes
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant
  • 2009
    Irreplaceable? The use of doubles to salvage the final performances of deceased screen actors
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Dr Lisa Bode is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    What drives seasonal anthology television?: Death and renewal, iterative continuity, and aesthetic complexity

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Ted Nannicelli

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Deepfakes: re-balancing the governance of persona appropriation created with AI

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Identity and Representation of Novel Female Superheroes in Contemporary Cinema

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Jason Jacobs

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Affective Impact of Metacinematic Storytelling

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Ted Nannicelli

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

Contact Dr Lisa Bode directly for media enquiries about:

  • Acting and digital media
  • Cinema - special effects
  • Digital imaging for film
  • Media - digital
  • Media and culture
  • Mock documentary
  • Special effects in cinema

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