Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture: Bodies, Screens, Renderings. With a Foreword by Lesley Stern

Published by transcript Verlag 2012

Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture

Bodies, Screens, Renderings. With a Foreword by Lesley Stern

Edited by: Jörg Sternagel , Deborah Levitt and Dieter Mersch

Volume 7 in the series Metabasis - Transkriptionen zwischen Literaturen, Künsten und Medien

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839416488

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Jörg Sternagel (Dr. phil. habil.) works as »Akademischer Rat« at the chair of media studies with a focus on digital culture at Universität Passau. He is a member of the advisory board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik. His research focuses on alterity, imagery, mediality and performativity.
Deborah Levitt is Assistant Professor in Culture and Media Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York City. She is a media historian and theorist. Her research focuses on media, biopolitics, and rhetorics of life.
Dieter Mersch (Prof. Dr. em.) is former head of the Institute for Critical Theory at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and former president of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik. His fields of work include philosophical aesthetics, media philosophy, image theory, and the philosophy of music. Thomas Strässle (Prof. Dr.) is head of the Institute for Transdisciplinarity (Y Institute) at the Hochschule der Künste Bern and professor of modern German and comparative literature at the Universität Zürich. His fields of work include German literature from the 17th to the 21st century in a European context and the relationship between literature and other arts, especially music and material aesthetics.

Reviews

»Der Sammelband ist nicht einfach eine weitere Publikation, die der Beziehung zwischen neuen Technologien und Schauspiel gewidmet ist, und er bietet mehr als einen Überblick über schauspielerische Performance in zeitgenössischen Massenmedien, nämlich vor allem Ansatzpunkte für neue analytische sowie theoretische Zugänge.«
Mattia Lento, NCCR Mediality Newsletter, 9 (2013)

Reviewed in:
GMK-Newsletter, 11/12 (2012)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Editorial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Foreword
»›Always Too Small or Too Tall‹«: Rescaling Screen Performance Lesley Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Introduction
Etymological Uncoveries, Creative Displays: Acting as Force and Performance as Eloquence in Moving Image Culture Jörg Sternagel, Deborah Levitt and Dieter Mersch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Presentations and Representations
Spectacular Acting: On the Exhibitionist Dynamics of Film Star Performance Paul McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Cary Grant: Acting Style and Genre in Classical Hollywood Cinema Kathrina Glitre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Mimesis and Narration: The Performance of Actors and Cinematic Point of View in The Lady Eve and The Virgin Suicides Ceri Hovland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Postfeminist Portrayals of Masculinity and Femininity in Action Films: Mr. & Mrs. Smith Christina Adamou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Quantum of Craig: Daniel Craig and the Body of the New Bond Keren Omry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Appearances and Encounters
Actor/Character Dualism: The Case of Luis Buñuel’s Paradoxical Characters Johannes Riis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Frames for Ambivalence: Acting out Realism in Italian Neorealism and the Films of Christian Petzold Jan Distelmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Actor as an Icon of Presence: The Example of Delphine Seyrig Jacqueline Nacache Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Living Pictures: From Tableaux Vivants to Puppets and Para-Selves Deborah Levitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
All about Gena, Myrtle and Virginia: The Transitional Nature of Actress, Role and Character Malte Hagener Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Affects and Affections
A Surrealist Turn: Transformative Gestures in The Birds Jennifer M. Barker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Becoming-Violence of Performance Elena del Río Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Dangerous Liaisons and Counterfeit Affections: Cinema as Seduction Tarja Laine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
An Inscrutable Face: Nicole Kidman in Dogville Mirjam Schaub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Character-Witness, Actor-Medium Lisa Åkervall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Actions and Animations
Between Image and Volatility: Framing Motion in Dance and Film Susanne Foellmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
The Temporal Dimensions of Screen Performances: Exploring Expressive Movement in Live Action and Animated Film Cynthia Baron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Carnicke Emotional Expressivity in Motion Picture Capture Technology Sharon Marie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Going Native with Pandora’s (Tool) Box: Spiritual and Technological Conversions in James Cameron’s Avatar James Tobias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Double Negative: The Actor, the Non- Actor, and the Animated Documentary Karen Beckman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Reflections and Perspectives
Bodies of Light: Towards a Theory about Film Acting from a Communicative Perspective Henri Schoenmakers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Thinking through Acting: Performative Indices and Philosophical Assertions Aaron Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
An Emphasis on Being: Moving towards a Responsive Phenomenology of Film(’s) Performance Jörg S Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Being on the Screen: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Flesh, or the Actor’s Four Bodies Vivian Sobchack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Passion and Exposure: New Paradoxes of the Actor Dieter Mersch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 488
Keywords: Performance Studies; Moving Image Studies; Aesthetics; Ethics; Film; Body; Theatre; Media Aesthetics; Theatre Studies; Media Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839416488