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 in analog and digital film, animation and video art. The volume includes classical case studies and essays devoted to acting history and acting and genres, but its particular emphasis is on introducing a wide range of groundbreaking theoretical approaches – from continental and analytic philosophy to new media theory and cognitivist research – all of which interrogate the fundamental conceptions of »act« and »actor« that underwrite both popular and academic notions of performance in moving image culture.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Editorial
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Foreword
»›Always Too Small or Too Tall‹«: Rescaling Screen Performance
Seiten 11 - 48 -
Introduction
Etymological Uncoveries, Creative Displays: Acting as Force and Performance as Eloquence in Moving Image Culture
Seiten 51 - 58 -
Presentations and Representations
Spectacular Acting: On the Exhibitionist Dynamics of Film Star Performance
Seiten 61 - 70 -
Cary Grant: Acting Style and Genre in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Seiten 71 - 86 -
Mimesis and Narration: The Performance of Actors and Cinematic Point of View in The Lady Eve and The Virgin Suicides
Seiten 87 - 100 -
Postfeminist Portrayals of Masculinity and Femininity in Action Films: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Seiten 101 - 114 -
Quantum of Craig: Daniel Craig and the Body of the New Bond
Seiten 115 - 128 -
Appearances and Encounters
Actor/Character Dualism: The Case of Luis Buñuel's Paradoxical Characters
Seiten 131 - 144 -
Frames for Ambivalence: Acting out Realism in Italian Neorealism and the Films of Christian Petzold
Seiten 145 - 158 -
The Actor as an Icon of Presence: The Example of Delphine Seyrig
Seiten 159 - 176 -
Living Pictures: From Tableaux Vivants to Puppets and Para-Selves
Seiten 177 - 194 -
All about Gena, Myrtle and Virginia: The Transitional Nature of Actress, Role and Character
Seiten 195 - 208 -
Affects and Affections
A Surrealist Turn: Transformative Gestures in The Birds
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Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Becoming-Violence of Performance
Seiten 233 - 246 -
Dangerous Liaisons and Counterfeit Affections: Cinema as Seduction
Seiten 247 - 258 -
An Inscrutable Face: Nicole Kidman in Dogville
Seiten 259 - 274 -
Character-Witness, Actor-Medium
Seiten 275 - 288 -
Actions and Animations
Between Image and Volatility: Framing Motion in Dance and Film
Seiten 291 - 302 -
The Temporal Dimensions of Screen Performances: Exploring Expressive Movement in Live Action and Animated Film
Seiten 303 - 320 -
Carnicke Emotional Expressivity in Motion Picture Capture Technology
Seiten 321 - 338 -
Going Native with Pandora's (Tool) Box: Spiritual and Technological Conversions in James Cameron's Avatar
Seiten 339 - 362 -
Double Negative: The Actor, the Non- Actor, and the Animated Documentary
Seiten 363 - 376 -
Reflections and Perspectives
Bodies of Light: Towards a Theory about Film Acting from a Communicative Perspective
Seiten 379 - 394 -
Thinking through Acting: Performative Indices and Philosophical Assertions
Seiten 395 - 412 -
An Emphasis on Being: Moving towards a Responsive Phenomenology of Film('s) Performance
Seiten 413 - 428 -
Being on the Screen: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Flesh, or the Actor's Four Bodies
Seiten 429 - 446 -
Passion and Exposure: New Paradoxes of the Actor
Seiten 447 - 478 -
Contributors
Seiten 479 - 488
17. August 2012, 488 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-1648-4
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