Genre and performance: film and television (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cornea, Christine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at contemporary film and television, this book explores how popular genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together ground-breaking and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field. Previous studies of screen performance have tended to fix upon star actors, directors, or programme makers, or they have concentrated upon particular training and acting styles. Moving outside of these confines, this book provides a truly interdisciplinary account of performance in film and television and examines a much neglected area in our understanding of how popular genres and performance intersect on screen. Each chapter concentrates upon a particular genre or draws upon generic case studies in examining the significance of screen performance. Individual chapters examine contemporary film noir, horror, the biopic, drama-documentary, the western, science fiction, comedy performance in 'spoof news' programmes and the television 'sit com' and popular Bollywood films.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526129833
• Artikelnr.: 54361976

Autorenporträt

Christine Cornea is Lecturer in Film and Television with the School of Film and Television at the University of East Anglia

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Contributor biographies Acknowledgements 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