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Acting: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking
Claudia(Ed Springer
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Description for Acting: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking
Paperback. How Hollywood has shaped acting, from vaudeville to CGI Editor(s): Springer, Claudia; Levinson, Julie. Series: Behind the Silver Screen. Num Pages: 224 pages, 42 b&w. BIC Classification: APFA; APFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
Screen acting is generally considered in terms of the on-screen performance, which is actually the outcome of collaborative work and ever-changing conventions of the group activity that is filmmaking. New technologies and aesthetic developments, for example, continue to change how actors perform on screen..These elements are explored in this readable, in-depth investigation of the dynamic role of acting in the creation and evolution of Hollywood. Expert contributors take readers from the inception of film acting in 1895, when spectators thrilled at the sight of vaudeville performers and Wild West stars, through Hollywood's different eras, up to the current tendency to ... Read more
Screen acting is generally considered in terms of the on-screen performance, which is actually the outcome of collaborative work and ever-changing conventions of the group activity that is filmmaking. New technologies and aesthetic developments, for example, continue to change how actors perform on screen..These elements are explored in this readable, in-depth investigation of the dynamic role of acting in the creation and evolution of Hollywood. Expert contributors take readers from the inception of film acting in 1895, when spectators thrilled at the sight of vaudeville performers and Wild West stars, through Hollywood's different eras, up to the current tendency to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Behind the Silver Screen Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784534035
SKU
V9781784534035
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About Claudia(Ed Springer
Claudia Springer is Assistant Professor in the English Department of Framingham State University, USA, where she teaches film studies. She is the author of Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age and James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography. Julie Levinson is Professor of Film at Babson College, USA. She is the author of The ... Read more
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