Reframing screen performance
A study of film acting that challenges the belief that great cinematic performances are created in the editing room. Surveying the changing attitudes and practices of film acting, it argues that screen acting is a vital component of film and that it can be understood in the same way as theatrical performance.
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9780472025411, 9781282597600, 9786612597602, 0472025414, 1282597604, 6612597607
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Print version:
PART I: Cinema's varied use of gestures and expressions. Crafting, not capturing "natural" behavior on film
Giving performance elements their due
Thinking systematically about acting. PART II: Performance elements, cinematic conventions, and cultural traditions. Ostensive signs and performance montage
Case study: Chaplin in city lights
Acting choices and changing cinematic conventions
Case studies: adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Acting styles and cultural-aesthetic traditions
Case studies: seven Samurai and the magnificent seven. PART III: Terms and concepts from the craft of acting
Delsarte and the dynamics of human expression
Case study: smoke
Laban: temporal and spatial dimensions of movement
Case study: training day
Stanislavsky: players' actions as a window into characters' interactions
Case study: The Grifters
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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