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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... becomes a filmic element on a par with the tight framing of the long take that draws at- tention to her hands . Focusing on acting rather than stars , the glazed ex- pression in the eyes of a young man portraying a character out of his ...
... become a kind of blank that , like the other images in Bresson's creation , would draw its meaning from juxtaposition ... with other images . " 15 The casting of nonprofessional actors was also designed to main- tain the integrity of ...
... becomes plentitude , [ and ] the withholding of information makes for narrative density . ” 18 Consider the way performances are presented in Pickpocket ( 1959 ) , for example . Early in the film , Michael ( Martin Lassalle ) is shown ...
... which emerged in the mid - 1950s and has since become deeply entrenched , might be one reason that is the case . STRASBERG'S METHOD : RADICAL DEPARTURE OR MORE OF THE SAME Crafting , Not Capturing “ Natural " Behavior on Film 23.
... 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 to the public's sudden interest ...
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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 |