top of page

Tanine Allison

Allison-Tanine-026_edited.jpg

About

Tanine Allison is the Arthur Blank NEH Chair of the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences as well as an Associate Professor of Film and Media at Emory University. In addition to a monograph on American war cinema and media, she has published on performance capture, video games, digital animation and visual effects, and issues of digital realism. She is currently writing a book on how motion capture and other visual effects reflect cultural ideas of race and identity.

Areas of Focus

CGI, computer graphics, motion capture, facial animation, digital de-aging, digital modes of performance, industrial and cultural discourse, how visual effects intersect with aspects of identity (gender, race, etc.)

Relevant Research

‘Motion Capture and Embodied Virtual Performance’ (Expected 2025)  

‘The Threat of the AI Actor’ (2024)
 

‘Mediating the Human in Facial Performance Capture’ (2022)
 

Race and the Digital Face: Facial (mis)recognition in Gemini Man (2021)

Digital Film Restoration and the Politics of Whiteness in Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old (2021) 

Virtue Through Suffering: The American War Film at the End of Celluloid (2017)

Visual Effects: The Modern Entertainment Marketplace (2000-Present) (2016)

Blackface, Happy Feet: The Politics of Race in Motion Capture and Animation (2015)

More than a Man in a Monkey Suit: Andy Serkis, Motion Capture, and Digital Realism (2011)

Contact Details

Email:       tanine.allison@emory.edu 

           www.tanineallison.com  

Website

bottom of page