Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. (Jean-Luc Godard) Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our capacity to detect it. (Viktor Taransky) Abstract This essay is concerned with the use of digital technologies in Hollywood cinema to argue that they perpetuate the illusionism and verisimilitude of its representations. An initial discussion of … Continue reading ‘Reality is in the performance’: Issues of Digital Technology, Simulation and Artificial Acting in S1mOne – Anna Notaro