Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture : : Bodies, Screens, Renderings. With a Foreword by Lesley Stern / / ed. by Dieter Mersch, Deborah Levitt, Jörg Sternagel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adamou, Christina,; Barker, Jennifer M.,; Baron, Cynthia,; Beckman, Karen,; Distelmeyer, Jan,; Foellmer, Susanne,; Glitre, Kathrina,; Hagener, Malte,; Hovland, Ceri,; Laine, Tarja,; Levitt, Deborah,; Marie, Sharon,; McDonald, Paul,; Mersch, Dieter,; Nacache, Jacqueline,; Omry, Keren,; Riis, Johannes,; Río, Elena del,; S, Jörg,; Schaub, Mirjam,; Schoenmakers, Henri,; Sobchack, Vivian,; Stern, Lesley,; Sternagel, Jörg,; Taylor, Aaron,; Tobias, James,; Åkervall, Lisa,
• HerausgeberIn: Levitt, Deborah,; Mersch, Dieter,; Sternagel, Jörg,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Metabasis - Transkriptionen zwischen Literaturen, Künsten und Medien ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editorial -- 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 -- Carnicke 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