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Reframing screen performance / Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke

Author
Baron, Cynthia, 1954-
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]
Physical Description
1 online resource
Additional Creators
Carnicke, Sharon Marie, 1949-
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Language Note
English.
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.
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ISBN
9780472025411 (ebook)
0472025414
1282597604
9781282597600
9786612597602
6612597607
0472050257 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0472070258 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472050253 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472070251 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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