Film Audiences Question Cinematic Tricks Over Time

Film scholar Lisa Bode examines how audiences and the film industry treated cinematic illusions from cinema's early years through the 1920s and into the 1970s in Film History (Vol. 30, No. 4, Winter 2018). She documents audience fascination in the 1900s, a 1910s–1920s shift toward integrating tricks into narrative, and a 1970s resurgence tied to big-budget science fiction.