Reframing Screen Performance 1st Edition by Cynthia Baron, Sharon Marie Carnicke ISBN 978-0472050253 0472050257

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ISBN 10:  0472050257

ISBN 13: 978-0472050253

Author: Cynthia Baron,  Sharon Marie Carnicke

“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

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 understood in the same way as theatrical performance. This richly illustrated volume shows how and why the evocative details of actors’ voices, gestures, expressions, and actions are as significant as filmic narrative and audiovisual design. The book features in-depth studies of performances by Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, and Julianne Moore (among others) alongside subtle analyses of directors like Robert Altman and Akira Kurosawa, Sally Potter and Orson Welles. The book bridges the disparate fields of cinema studies and theater studies as it persuasively demonstrates the how theater theory can be illuminate the screen actor’s craft.

Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting into the twenty-first century and is an essential text for actors, directors, cinema studies scholars, and cinephiles eager to know more about the building blocks of memorable screen performance.

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.

Table of 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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