Actors and the art of performance : under exposure /

Actors and the art of performance : under exposure /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Valerie, Susanne, author.
Imprint:Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (XI, 120 pages)
Language:English
Series:Performance Philosophy
Performance philosophy.
Subject:
Acting -- Philosophy.
Performing arts.
Actresses.
Theater -- Philosophy.
Performance art.
Acting.
Culture -- Study and teaching.
Theater.
Acting.
Acting -- Philosophy.
Actresses.
Culture -- Study and teaching.
Performance art.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Theater -- Philosophy.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12329401
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Other authors / contributors:Radosh, Laura, translator.
Lagaay, Alice, translator.
ISBN:9781137596345
1137596341
1137596333
9781137596338
9781137596352
113759635X
9781137596338
Digital file characteristics:text file
PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the authorℓ́ℓs two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fi elds of both theater and philosophy. The art of acting on stage is analyzed here not only from the theoretical perspective of a spectator but also from the perspective of the actor. The author draws on her experience as both a theater actor and a university professor whose teachings in the art of acting rely heavily on her own experience and also on her philosophical knowledge. The book is unique not only in terms of its content but also in terms of its style. Written in a multiplicity of voices, the text oscillates between philosophical reasoning and narrative forms of writing, including micronarratives, fables, parables, and inter alia by Carroll, Hoff mann, and Kleist. Hence the book claims that a transdisciplinary dialogue between the art of acting and the art of philosophical thinking calls for an aesthetic study that questions and begins to seek alternatives to traditionally established and ingrained formats of philosophy. This book is open access under a CC BY license.
Other form:Printed edition: 9781137596338
Standard no.:10.1057/9781137596345
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Hits
  • 1. Auditorium X
  • Double stalemate
  • Turning point, peripeteia
  • Turn around
  • i, mine
  • 2. Speculations
  • Actors' fears
  • Crying
  • Child's play
  • Exposed
  • With-out me
  • 3. Black out
  • First time at the theater
  • Part II: Experts in being?
  • 4. The actor: A creature of fable
  • why do you want to be an actor?
  • 5. The Causa Corpora
  • The kiss of Olympia
  • Machine against man
  • The actor's trump card
  • 6. The gift of acting
  • Skipping
  • Prejudice
  • Subject-based thinking versus stage experience
  • Master and servant
  • Bodies on stage
  • Innocence of becoming
  • Language and speaking
  • Digesting speech
  • Counterwords
  • The Other, the others
  • Affect versus thought
  • Thinking and acting
  • Repetition
  • 7. The gift of death
  • Tu es mort
  • Theater as a symbolic death
  • Point of no return
  • Felicity
  • a salto mortale
  • Our friend Touchstone
  • 8. Finale and punctum
  • Why do you want to be an actor?

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