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Reframing Screen Performance
Baron, Cynthia, Carnicke, Sharon Marie
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Description for Reframing Screen Performance
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 304 pages, 49 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ANC; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
This book challenges conventional approaches to film by advancing the simple yet revolutionary idea that acting is one of cinema's essential aspects.""Reframing Screen Performance"" is a groundbreaking study of film acting that challenges the long held belief that great cinematic performances are created in the editing room. Surveying the changing attitudes and practices of film acting - from the silent films of Charlie Chaplin to the rise of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio in the 1950s to the eclecticism found in contemporary cinema - this volume argues that screen acting is a vital component of film and that it can be ... Read more
This book challenges conventional approaches to film by advancing the simple yet revolutionary idea that acting is one of cinema's essential aspects.""Reframing Screen Performance"" is a groundbreaking study of film acting that challenges the long held belief that great cinematic performances are created in the editing room. Surveying the changing attitudes and practices of film acting - from the silent films of Charlie Chaplin to the rise of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio in the 1950s to the eclecticism found in contemporary cinema - this volume argues that screen acting is a vital component of film and that it can be ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472070251
SKU
V9780472070251
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About Baron, Cynthia, Carnicke, Sharon Marie
Cynthia Baron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Bowling Green State University and co-editor of More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance. Sharon Carnicke is Professor of Theater and Slavic Studies and Associate Dean of Theater at the University of Southern California and author of Stanislavsky in Focus.
Reviews for Reframing Screen Performance
A significant contribution to the literature on screen performance studies, Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting up to date. It should be of interest to those within cinema studies as well as general readers. - Frank P. Tomasulo, Florida State University