| Description |
xi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Contemporary approaches to film and television series |
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Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
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| Contents |
Introduction : More than the method, more than one method / Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson and Frank P. Tomasulo -- 1. Why study film acting? : some opening reflections / Paul McDonald -- 2. Screen performance and directors' visions / Sharon Marie Carnicke -- 3. Performance in the films of Robert Bresson : the aesthetics of denial / Doug Tomlinson -- 4. "The sounds of silence" : modernist acting in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-up / Frank P. Tomasulo -- 5. Resisting reality : acting by design in Robert Altman's Nashville / Robert T. Self -- 6. Playing with performance : directorial and performance style in John Cassavetes's Opening night / Maria Viera -- 7. Plain and simple : masculinity through John Sayles's lens / Diane Carson -- 8. Passionate engagement : performance in the films of Neil Jordan / Carole Zucker -- 9. Acting prima donna politics in Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Strawberry and chocolate / Ronald E. Shields -- 10. Kidman, Cruise, and Kubrick : a Brechtian pastiche / Dennis Bingham -- 11. Thinking through Jim Carrey / Vivian Sobchack -- 12. Suiting up for postmodern performance in John Woo's The killer / Cynthia Baron |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion picture acting.
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| Author |
Carson, Diane.
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Baron, Cynthia A
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Tomasulo, Frank P.
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| LC no. |
2004000534 |
| ISBN |
0814330789 |
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0814330797 paperback |
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