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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... moments of calm.3 Academic writing about stars and audiences has illuminated a great deal about films and the moviegoing experience . However , only by challenging traditional views of film and performance can one shed new light on ...
... moment to mo- ment . Audiences know that emotional significance and narrative informa- tion will be doled out in bits and pieces . As a consequence , viewers notice the slightest shifts in performers ' facial expressions , the smallest ...
... ( moments that empha- size spectacle , action , or display more than character and narrative ) exem- plified by Astaire - Rogers dance numbers or scenes with an Armani - suited Chow Yun - Fat gunning down waves of faceless opponents . But ...
... moments when actors project their characters ' subjective experi- ences . Instead , they minimize actors ' presentation of character . Physical and vocal expressivity is noticeably delimited by framing , editing , and sound de- sign ...
Cynthia Baron, Sharon Marie Carnicke. Bresson's Pickpocket : a moment of expressivity in a minimalist performance Renoir's The Rules of the Game : opportunities to explore actors ' performances Joan Fontaine in Suspicion : her powerless ...
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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 |