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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Baron, Cynthia, 1954- Reframing screen performance. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008 (OCoLC)608299031 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cynthia Baron; Sharon Marie Carnicke |
| ISBN: | 9780472070251 0472070258 9780472050253 0472050257 |
| OCLC Number: | 162126880 |
| Description: | 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke. |
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