Reframing screen performance /
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
[2008]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.104480 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.