Theorizing Film Acting (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Taylor, Aaron

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive collection provides theoretical accounts of the grounds and phenomenon of film acting. Each section proposes novel ways of considering the recurring motifs in academic enquiries into film acting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136337741
• Artikelnr.: 38266173

Autorenporträt

Aaron Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of New Media at the University of Lethbridge. His recent publications on film acting can be found in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2012), Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture (2012), and Stages of Reality: Theatricality in Cinema (2011). He has recently written on It's a Wonderful Life for the Cultographies series.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Acting
Casually and Theoretically Speaking
Aaron Taylor I. Aesthetics: Understanding and Interpreting Film Acting 1. Acting Matters: Noting Performance in Three Films
Brenda Austin-Smith 2. Living Meaning: The Fluency of Film Performance
Andrew Klevan 3. Play-Acting: A Theory of Comedic Performance
Alex Clayton 4. Performed Performance and The Man Who Knew Too Much
Murray Pomerance 5. Brando Sings! The Invincible Star Persona
George Toles II. Reception: Film Acting
Audiences and Communities 6. "Look at Me!": A Phenomenology of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Joerg Sternagel 7. Is Acting a Form of Simulation or Being? Acting and Mirror Neurons
William Brown 8. The Bond That Unbinds By Binding: Acting Mythology and the Film Community
Kevin Esch 9. From Being to Acting: Performance in Cult Cinema
Ernest Mathijs 10. Acting and Performance in Home Movies and Amateur Films
Liz Czach III. Culture: Film History
Industry and the Vicissitudes of Star Acting 11. Story and Show: The Basic Contradiction of Film Star Acting
Paul McDonald 12. The Screen Actor's "First Self" and "Second Self": John Wayne and Coquelin's Acting Theory
Sharon Marie Carnicke 13. Acting Like a Star: Florence Turner
Picture Personality
Charlie Keil 14. Niche Stars and Acting "Gay
" Christine Holmlund IV. Apparatus: Technology
Film Form and the Actor 15. What Becomes of the Camera in the World on Film? William Rothman 16. Sonic Bodies: Listening as Acting
Jennifer M. Barker 17. Dance of the Übermarionettes: Toward a Contemporary Screen Actor Training
Sean Aita 18. Articulating Digital Stardom
Barry King