Genre and performance

film and television
Herausgeber: Cornea, Christine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together innovative and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field and examines a much neglected area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780719095597
• ISBN-10: 071909559X
• Artikelnr.: 40477181

Autorenporträt

Christine Cornea is Lecturer in Film and Television in the School of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of East Anglia

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's introduction
Christine Cornea 1. Film noir: gesture under pressure
Cynthia Baron 2. Captured ghosts: horror acting in the 1970s British television drama
Richard J. Hand 3. Docudrama performance: realism, recognition and representation
Jonathan Bignell 4. Living stories: performance in the contemporary biopic
Dennis Bingham 5. Borders and boundaries in Deadwood
Steven Peacock 6. The Colbert Report: performing the news as parody for the postmodern viewer
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster 7. Contemporary comedy performance in British sitcom
Brett Mills 8. 2
D performance and the re
animated actor in science fiction cinema
Christine Cornea 9. The multiple determinants of television acting
Roberta Pearson 10. Bollywood blends: genre and performance in Shahrukh Khan's post
millennial films
Rayna Denison Index