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Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture : Bodies, Screens, Renderings. With a Foreword by Lesley Stern /

This volume offers transdisciplinary perspectives on the study of acting and performance in moving image forms. It assembles 26 international scholars from dance, theatre, film, media and cultural studies, art history and philosophy to investigate the art of acting and the presence of the human body...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Levitt, Deborah (Editor ), Mersch, Dieter (Editor ), Sternagel, Jörg (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2012]
Colección:Metabasis - Transkriptionen zwischen Literaturen, Künsten und Medien ; 7
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editorial
  • Contents
  • »: lways Too Small or Too Tall9 : Rescaling Screen Performance / Stern, Lesley
  • Etymological Uncoveries, Creative Displays: Acting as Force and Performance as Eloquence in Moving Image Culture / Sternagel, Jörg ; Levitt, Deborah ; Mersch, Dieter
  • Spectacular Acting: On the Exhibitionist Dynamics of Film Star Performance / McDonald, Paul
  • Cary Grant: Acting Style and Genre in Classical Hollywood Cinema / Glitre, Kathrina
  • Mimesis and Narration: The Performance of Actors and Cinematic Point of View in The Lady Eve and The Virgin Suicides / Hovland, Ceri
  • Postfeminist Portrayals of Masculinity and Femininity in Action Films: Mr. & Mrs. Smith / Adamou, Christina
  • Quantum of Craig: Daniel Craig and the Body of the New Bond / Omry, Keren
  • Actor/Character Dualism: The Case of Luis Buñuel's Paradoxical Characters / Riis, Johannes
  • Frames for Ambivalence: Acting out Realism in Italian Neorealism and the Films of Christian Petzold / Distelmeyer, Jan
  • The Actor as an Icon of Presence: The Example of Delphine Seyrig / Nacache, Jacqueline
  • Living Pictures: From Tableaux Vivants to Puppets and Para-Selves / Levitt, Deborah
  • All about Gena, Myrtle and Virginia: The Transitional Nature of Actress, Role and Character / Hagener, Malte
  • A Surrealist Turn: Transformative Gestures in The Birds / Barker, Jennifer M.
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Becoming-Violence of Performance / Río, Elena del
  • Dangerous Liaisons and Counterfeit Affections: Cinema as Seduction / Laine, Tarja
  • An Inscrutable Face: Nicole Kidman in Dogville / Schaub, Mirjam
  • Character-Witness, Actor-Medium / Åkervall, Lisa
  • Between Image and Volatility: Framing Motion in Dance and Film / Foellmer, Susanne
  • The Temporal Dimensions of Screen Performances: Exploring Expressive Movement in Live Action and Animated Film / Baron, Cynthia
  • Carnicke Emotional Expressivity in Motion Picture Capture Technology / Marie, Sharon
  • Going Native with Pandora's (Tool) Box: Spiritual and Technological Conversions in James Cameron's Avatar / Tobias, James
  • Double Negative: The Actor, the Non- Actor, and the Animated Documentary / Beckman, Karen
  • Bodies of Light: Towards a Theory about Film Acting from a Communicative Perspective / Schoenmakers, Henri
  • Thinking through Acting: Performative Indices and Philosophical Assertions / Taylor, Aaron
  • An Emphasis on Being: Moving towards a Responsive Phenomenology of Film('s) Performance / S, Jörg
  • Being on the Screen: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Flesh, or the Actor's Four Bodies / Sobchack, Vivian
  • Passion and Exposure: New Paradoxes of the Actor / Mersch, Dieter
  • Contributors.