Describes how stunt performers, camera trickery, and computer graphics are used to create illusions of reality in movies.

Tom Cruise performed his own stunts for the film Mission Impossible: The Ghost Protocol, which included dangling 1,700 feet from the world’s tallest building!

"Describes in countdown format 10 of the most dangerous stunts ever attempted"--Provided by publisher.

Throughout film history, one of the fundamental fantasies portrayed on screen has been the kind of physical action few of us could ever experience in real life.