Introduction: Virtual Production: What is Real? Section One: It's Always Been Real: Contemporising Virtual Production 1. 'This is the Way': ILM's Stagecraft, Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Constructing the Rhetoric of Virtual Production 2. Virtual Production and the History of Attractions 3. Reengineering Rear Projection? A Genealogy of Virtual Production Spaces and their Aesthetic and Logistical Potential 4. Unreal Spaces, Real Peripheries: Exploring the Materialities of Virtual Production 5. Redefining Perceptual Reality: A Cinematic Phenomenology of Virtual Production Section Two: The Body Becomes You: Performing Virtual Production 6. Facilitating an Immersive Performance Environment in Virtual Production 7. Virtual Production and the Future of Live Performance - intermedial trajectories of expanded animation in the immersive production Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2021) 8.

Animated Presence in Virtual Production 9. Immersive Staging Techniques in Virtual Production: The Profilmic Phase of Avatar , Miriam Meriam Ouertani Section Three: Skin Deep: Gazing with Virtual Production 10. Race, Identity and Virtual Production: Passing through the Technology 11. Photogrammetric Race-Making in the MetaHuman Creator 12. Decolonising Virtual Production? - Optimising Skin-tone Representations and Aesthetics in an LED Volume with Personal Colour Analysis 13. Virtual Screens and the Human Gaze Section Four: Whose Work? Labouring with Virtual Production 14. Performing Pandora: Virtual Production and the Profilmic Event in 'Avatar' 15. Sound Design and Virtual Production: Implementing Sound in a Pre-Production Workflow 16.

Lost in the virtual abyss: female participation and experience in Virtual Production industry and educational contexts in Australia 17. Intimate Frames: Intimacy and performance in virtual production 18. Towards the Engine Cinema: The Virtual Production in Chinese Film Industries.