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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.