Reframing Screen PerformanceUniversity of Michigan Press, 11.02.2010 г. - 310 страници "A significant contribution to the literature on screen performance studies, Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting up to date. It should be of interest to those within cinema studies as well as general readers." Reframing Screen Performance is a groundbreaking study of film acting that challenges the long held belief that great cinematic performances are created in the editing room. Surveying the changing attitudes and practices of film acting---from the silent films of Charlie Chaplin to the rise of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio in the 1950s to the eclecticism found in contemporary cinema---this volume argues that screen acting is a vital component of film and that it can be understood in the same way as theatrical performance. This richly illustrated volume shows how and why the evocative details of actors' voices, gestures, expressions, and actions are as significant as filmic narrative and audiovisual design. The book features in-depth studies of performances by Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, and Julianne Moore (among others) alongside subtle analyses of directors like Robert Altman and Akira Kurosawa, Sally Potter and Orson Welles. The book bridges the disparate fields of cinema studies and theater studies as it persuasively demonstrates the how theater theory can be illuminate the screen actor's craft. Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting into the twenty-first century and is an essential text for actors, directors, cinema studies scholars, and cinephiles eager to know more about the building blocks of memorable screen performance. Cynthia Baron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Bowling Green State University and co-editor of More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance. Sharon Carnicke is Professor of Theater and Slavic Studies and Associate Dean of Theater at the University of Southern California and author of Stanislavsky in Focus. |
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... aspects of film , treating the actor's work as resistant to descriptive analysis and lacking an objective , critical vocabulary.2 While academics readily accept that crew members rely on craft knowledge , they have often overlooked ways ...
... aspects of the film . By comparison , critics generally paid close attention to Winslet's performance in Iris ( Richard Eyre , 2001 ) , a literate British drama with " quality " acting guaranteed by the casting of Jim Broadbent and Dame ...
... aspects of cinema because people have tended to think that films , like other aspects of modern life , simply fragment experience . While fram- ing and editing choices can disperse attention , they also have a dialogic or reciprocal ...
... aspects of themselves and their society . " 22 The Rules of the Game ( 1939 ) exemplifies that ap- proach , for audiences are consistently given the “ opportunity to choose their visual focus from among a multiplicity of simultaneous ...
... aspects of actor preparation had become com- monplace enough that they could circulate in the press without disturbing the studios ' equation between films and pleasurable entertainment . The ar- ticle also reveals the press's response ...
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PERFORmANCE ELEmENTS CINEmATIC CONvENTIONS | 87 |
TERmS AND CONCEPTS FROm THE CRAFT OF ACTING | 163 |
Conclusion | 232 |
Case Study of Romeo and Juliet | 239 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 291 |