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Reframing screen performance
Record details
- ISBN: 0472050257 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780472050253 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0472070258 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780472070251 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0472025414 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780472025411 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (301 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User OldControl:muse9780472025411 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-290) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Motion picture acting Schauspielkunst -- Methode Filmästhetik Schauspielkunst Motion picture acting PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning Film Schauspielkunst Film |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Electronic books. |
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