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Acts : Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self /

Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the first philosophical study devoted to acting, Acts sheds light on some of the more evasive aspects of the acting experience - such as the import of the ac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zamir, Tzachi, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Life on the stage : What actors do ; Three kinds of existential amplification ; The experience of amplification ; Watching actors ; Listening to actors
  • Part II. Staging fictions : Staging words ; Staging literature ; Staging objects
  • Part III. Between life and stage : Unethical acts ; Pornography and acting
  • Part IV. Life as stage : The theatricalization of love ; The theatricalization of death
  • Conclusion.