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Dr Lisa Bode

Senior Lecturer

School of Communication and Arts
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
l.bode@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 51443

Overview

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

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

Qualifications

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

Publications

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Book

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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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.

  • '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.

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Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

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

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Seasonal Anthology Television and the Implications of Disrupted Seriality for Aesthetic Evaluation

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Identity and Representation of Novel Female Superheroes in Contemporary Cinema

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • `Beware of inquisitive women¿: Female Spies in WWII Cinema

    Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • The Affective Impact of Metacinematic Storytelling

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision

This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

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

They are happy to lend their expertise to your articles or broadcasts and share their research discoveries and insights with the community via media channels.

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ORCID: 0000-0003-4972-5750

Scopus ID: 35200392800

Google Scholar ID: 28f3PQMAAAAJ

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