This book gives an account of characterization in moving image fictions. Areas of investigation include the importance of performer and stars, the societal contexts of types, the constraints of the medium, the role of a specific genre and the question of emotional and moral engagement.
This book gives an account of characterization in moving image fictions. Areas of investigation include the importance of performer and stars, the societal contexts of types, the constraints of the medium, the role of a specific genre and the question of emotional and moral engagement.
Johannes Riis is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively on issues of film acting, including a monograph (Spillets kunst: Følelser i film); articles in numerous journals and anthologies, including Cinema Journal, Projections, and The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film. A member of the Board of Directors at The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image since 2005, he is currently writing a book on film acting styles between 1920 and 1980. Aaron Taylor is an Associate Professor of New Media and a Board of Governors Research Chair (2019-2023) at the University of Lethbridge. He is the editor of Theorizing Film Acting, and his essays on performance have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Cinema Journal, Velvet Light Trap, [in]Transition, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, The Journal of Film and Video, Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances Vol. 2, Make Ours Marvel, Millennial Masculinity, Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture, and Stages of Reality.
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CONTENTS List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Foreword: Consorting with Characters Murray Smith Introduction: Screening Characters Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor Part 1: The Importance of Actors 1. Seeing and Hearing Screen Characters: Stars, Twofoldness, and the Imagination Ted Nannicelli 2. Character and the Star Vehicle: The Impact of Casting Cary Grant Kathrina Glitre 3. Character Collaborations: The Writer-Actor Relationship in Mad Men R. Colin Tait Part 2: Social Types, Social Contexts 4. Being Typical and Being Individual Henry Bacon 5. The Mark of the Social: Stereotypes, Folk Psychology and Metonymy in Mainstream Film Tico Romao 6. Racialized Disgust and Character in Film Dan Flory Part 3: Medium-Specific Features and Constraints 7. Impossible Characterizations Paisley Livingston 8. Performative Metamorphosis: Animated Characters and Spectator Proximity Pete Sillett 9. Social Media as Interface, or How Characters Enter Our Everyday Reality Philippe Gauthier 10. Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games Andreas Gregersen Part 4: Emotional and Moral Engagement 11. Ethical Criticism and Fictional Characters as Moral Agents Carl Plantinga 12. Absorbed Character Engagement: From Social Cognition Responses to the Experience of Fictional Constructions Katalin Bálint and Ed Tan 13. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt:" Why Fascination, Rather than Repeat Exposure, Better Explains the Appeal of Antiheroes on Television Malcolm Turvey Part 5: The Character within Genres 14. Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media Jinhee Choi 15. Action and Affordances: The Action Hero's Skilled and Surprising Use of the Environment Birger Langkjær and Charlotte Sun Jensen 16. Introducing Characters in Television Crime Series: Stylistic and Narrative Strategies Lennard Højbjerg Index
CONTENTS List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Foreword: Consorting with Characters Murray Smith Introduction: Screening Characters Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor Part 1: The Importance of Actors 1. Seeing and Hearing Screen Characters: Stars, Twofoldness, and the Imagination Ted Nannicelli 2. Character and the Star Vehicle: The Impact of Casting Cary Grant Kathrina Glitre 3. Character Collaborations: The Writer-Actor Relationship in Mad Men R. Colin Tait Part 2: Social Types, Social Contexts 4. Being Typical and Being Individual Henry Bacon 5. The Mark of the Social: Stereotypes, Folk Psychology and Metonymy in Mainstream Film Tico Romao 6. Racialized Disgust and Character in Film Dan Flory Part 3: Medium-Specific Features and Constraints 7. Impossible Characterizations Paisley Livingston 8. Performative Metamorphosis: Animated Characters and Spectator Proximity Pete Sillett 9. Social Media as Interface, or How Characters Enter Our Everyday Reality Philippe Gauthier 10. Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games Andreas Gregersen Part 4: Emotional and Moral Engagement 11. Ethical Criticism and Fictional Characters as Moral Agents Carl Plantinga 12. Absorbed Character Engagement: From Social Cognition Responses to the Experience of Fictional Constructions Katalin Bálint and Ed Tan 13. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt:" Why Fascination, Rather than Repeat Exposure, Better Explains the Appeal of Antiheroes on Television Malcolm Turvey Part 5: The Character within Genres 14. Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media Jinhee Choi 15. Action and Affordances: The Action Hero's Skilled and Surprising Use of the Environment Birger Langkjær and Charlotte Sun Jensen 16. Introducing Characters in Television Crime Series: Stylistic and Narrative Strategies Lennard Højbjerg Index
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