Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture ：Bodies, Screens, Renderings. With a Foreword by Lesley Stern ( Metabasis - Transkriptionen zwischen Literaturen, Künsten und Medien )

Publication subTitle ：Bodies, Screens, Renderings. With a Foreword by Lesley Stern

Publication series ：Metabasis - Transkriptionen zwischen Literaturen, Künsten und Medien

Author： Sternagel Jörg;Levitt Deborah;Mersch Dieter  

Publisher： transcript-Verlag‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9783839416488

Subject： J90 Film, TV Art Theory

Keyword： 信息与知识传播,电影、电视艺术,文化理论

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

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Contents

Foreword

»›Always Too Small or Too Tall‹«: Rescaling Screen Performance

Introduction

Etymological Uncoveries, Creative Displays: Acting as Force and Performance as Eloquence in Moving Image Culture

Presentations and Representations

Spectacular Acting: On the Exhibitionist Dynamics of Film Star Performance

Cary Grant: Acting Style and Genre in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Mimesis and Narration: The Performance of Actors and Cinematic Point of View in The Lady Eve and The Virgin Suicides

Postfeminist Portrayals of Masculinity and Femininity in Action Films: Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Quantum of Craig: Daniel Craig and the Body of the New Bond

Appearances and Encounters

Actor/Character Dualism: The Case of Luis Buñuel’s Paradoxical Characters

Frames for Ambivalence: Acting out Realism in Italian Neorealism and the Films of Christian Petzold

The Actor as an Icon of Presence: The Example of Delphine Seyrig

Living Pictures: From Tableaux Vivants to Puppets and Para-Selves

All about Gena, Myrtle and Virginia: The Transitional Nature of Actress, Role and Character

Affects and Affections

A Surrealist Turn: Transformative Gestures in The Birds

Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Becoming-Violence of Performance

Dangerous Liaisons and Counterfeit Affections: Cinema as Seduction

An Inscrutable Face: Nicole Kidman in Dogville

Character-Witness, Actor-Medium

Actions and Animations

Between Image and Volatility: Framing Motion in Dance and Film

The Temporal Dimensions of Screen Performances: Exploring Expressive Movement in Live Action and Animated Film

Emotional Expressivity in Motion Picture Capture Technology

Going Native with Pandora’s (Tool) Box: Spiritual and Technological Conversions in James Cameron’s Avatar

Double Negative: The Actor, the Non- Actor, and the Animated Documentary

Reflections and Perspectives

Bodies of Light: Towards a Theory about Film Acting from a Communicative Perspective

Thinking through Acting: Performative Indices and Philosophical Assertions

An Emphasis on Being: Moving towards a Responsive Phenomenology of Film(’s) Performance

Being on the Screen: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Flesh, or the Actor’s Four Bodies

Passion and Exposure: New Paradoxes of the Actor

Contributors

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