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Theories of Character in Film, Television, and Interactive Media
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This book gives an account of characterization in moving image fictions. Areas of investigation include the importance of performer and stars, the societal contexts of types, the constraints of the medium, the role of a specific genre and the question of emotional and moral engagement.
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This book gives an account of characterization in moving image fictions. Areas of investigation include the importance of performer and stars, the societal contexts of types, the constraints of the medium, the role of a specific genre and the question of emotional and moral engagement.
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 350
- Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780429749162
- Artikelnr.: 56831441
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 350
- Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780429749162
- Artikelnr.: 56831441
Johannes Riis is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively on issues of film acting, including a monograph (Spillets kunst: Følelser i film); articles in numerous journals and anthologies, including Cinema Journal, Projections, and The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film. A member of the Board of Directors at The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image since 2005, he is currently writing a book on film acting styles between 1920 and 1980. Aaron Taylor is an Associate Professor of New Media and a Board of Governors Research Chair (2019-2023) at the University of Lethbridge. He is the editor of Theorizing Film Acting, and his essays on performance have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Cinema Journal, Velvet Light Trap, [in]Transition, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, The Journal of Film and Video, Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances Vol. 2, Make Ours Marvel, Millennial Masculinity, Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture, and Stages of Reality.
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Consorting with Characters
Murray Smith
Introduction: Screening Characters
Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor
Part 1: The Importance of Actors
1. Seeing and Hearing Screen Characters: Stars, Twofoldness, and the Imagination
Ted Nannicelli
2. Character and the Star Vehicle: The Impact of Casting Cary Grant
Kathrina Glitre
3. Character Collaborations: The Writer-Actor Relationship in Mad Men
R. Colin Tait
Part 2: Social Types, Social Contexts
4. Being Typical and Being Individual
Henry Bacon
5. The Mark of the Social: Stereotypes, Folk Psychology and Metonymy in Mainstream Film
Tico Romao
6. Racialized Disgust and Character in Film
Dan Flory
Part 3: Medium-Specific Features and Constraints
7. Impossible Characterizations
Paisley Livingston
8. Performative Metamorphosis: Animated Characters and Spectator Proximity
Pete Sillett
9. Social Media as Interface, or How Characters Enter Our Everyday Reality
Philippe Gauthier
10. Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games
Andreas Gregersen
Part 4: Emotional and Moral Engagement
11. Ethical Criticism and Fictional Characters as Moral Agents
Carl Plantinga
12. Absorbed Character Engagement: From Social Cognition Responses to the Experience of Fictional Constructions
Katalin Bálint and Ed Tan
13. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt:" Why Fascination, Rather than Repeat Exposure, Better Explains the Appeal of Antiheroes on Television
Malcolm Turvey
Part 5: The Character within Genres
14. Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media
Jinhee Choi
15. Action and Affordances: The Action Hero's Skilled and Surprising Use of the Environment
Birger Langkjær and Charlotte Sun Jensen
16. Introducing Characters in Television Crime Series: Stylistic and Narrative Strategies
Lennard Højbjerg
Index
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Consorting with Characters
Murray Smith
Introduction: Screening Characters
Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor
Part 1: The Importance of Actors
1. Seeing and Hearing Screen Characters: Stars, Twofoldness, and the Imagination
Ted Nannicelli
2. Character and the Star Vehicle: The Impact of Casting Cary Grant
Kathrina Glitre
3. Character Collaborations: The Writer-Actor Relationship in Mad Men
R. Colin Tait
Part 2: Social Types, Social Contexts
4. Being Typical and Being Individual
Henry Bacon
5. The Mark of the Social: Stereotypes, Folk Psychology and Metonymy in Mainstream Film
Tico Romao
6. Racialized Disgust and Character in Film
Dan Flory
Part 3: Medium-Specific Features and Constraints
7. Impossible Characterizations
Paisley Livingston
8. Performative Metamorphosis: Animated Characters and Spectator Proximity
Pete Sillett
9. Social Media as Interface, or How Characters Enter Our Everyday Reality
Philippe Gauthier
10. Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games
Andreas Gregersen
Part 4: Emotional and Moral Engagement
11. Ethical Criticism and Fictional Characters as Moral Agents
Carl Plantinga
12. Absorbed Character Engagement: From Social Cognition Responses to the Experience of Fictional Constructions
Katalin Bálint and Ed Tan
13. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt:" Why Fascination, Rather than Repeat Exposure, Better Explains the Appeal of Antiheroes on Television
Malcolm Turvey
Part 5: The Character within Genres
14. Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media
Jinhee Choi
15. Action and Affordances: The Action Hero's Skilled and Surprising Use of the Environment
Birger Langkjær and Charlotte Sun Jensen
16. Introducing Characters in Television Crime Series: Stylistic and Narrative Strategies
Lennard Højbjerg
Index
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Consorting with Characters
Murray Smith
Introduction: Screening Characters
Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor
Part 1: The Importance of Actors
1. Seeing and Hearing Screen Characters: Stars, Twofoldness, and the Imagination
Ted Nannicelli
2. Character and the Star Vehicle: The Impact of Casting Cary Grant
Kathrina Glitre
3. Character Collaborations: The Writer-Actor Relationship in Mad Men
R. Colin Tait
Part 2: Social Types, Social Contexts
4. Being Typical and Being Individual
Henry Bacon
5. The Mark of the Social: Stereotypes, Folk Psychology and Metonymy in Mainstream Film
Tico Romao
6. Racialized Disgust and Character in Film
Dan Flory
Part 3: Medium-Specific Features and Constraints
7. Impossible Characterizations
Paisley Livingston
8. Performative Metamorphosis: Animated Characters and Spectator Proximity
Pete Sillett
9. Social Media as Interface, or How Characters Enter Our Everyday Reality
Philippe Gauthier
10. Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games
Andreas Gregersen
Part 4: Emotional and Moral Engagement
11. Ethical Criticism and Fictional Characters as Moral Agents
Carl Plantinga
12. Absorbed Character Engagement: From Social Cognition Responses to the Experience of Fictional Constructions
Katalin Bálint and Ed Tan
13. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt:" Why Fascination, Rather than Repeat Exposure, Better Explains the Appeal of Antiheroes on Television
Malcolm Turvey
Part 5: The Character within Genres
14. Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media
Jinhee Choi
15. Action and Affordances: The Action Hero's Skilled and Surprising Use of the Environment
Birger Langkjær and Charlotte Sun Jensen
16. Introducing Characters in Television Crime Series: Stylistic and Narrative Strategies
Lennard Højbjerg
Index
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Consorting with Characters
Murray Smith
Introduction: Screening Characters
Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor
Part 1: The Importance of Actors
1. Seeing and Hearing Screen Characters: Stars, Twofoldness, and the Imagination
Ted Nannicelli
2. Character and the Star Vehicle: The Impact of Casting Cary Grant
Kathrina Glitre
3. Character Collaborations: The Writer-Actor Relationship in Mad Men
R. Colin Tait
Part 2: Social Types, Social Contexts
4. Being Typical and Being Individual
Henry Bacon
5. The Mark of the Social: Stereotypes, Folk Psychology and Metonymy in Mainstream Film
Tico Romao
6. Racialized Disgust and Character in Film
Dan Flory
Part 3: Medium-Specific Features and Constraints
7. Impossible Characterizations
Paisley Livingston
8. Performative Metamorphosis: Animated Characters and Spectator Proximity
Pete Sillett
9. Social Media as Interface, or How Characters Enter Our Everyday Reality
Philippe Gauthier
10. Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games
Andreas Gregersen
Part 4: Emotional and Moral Engagement
11. Ethical Criticism and Fictional Characters as Moral Agents
Carl Plantinga
12. Absorbed Character Engagement: From Social Cognition Responses to the Experience of Fictional Constructions
Katalin Bálint and Ed Tan
13. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt:" Why Fascination, Rather than Repeat Exposure, Better Explains the Appeal of Antiheroes on Television
Malcolm Turvey
Part 5: The Character within Genres
14. Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media
Jinhee Choi
15. Action and Affordances: The Action Hero's Skilled and Surprising Use of the Environment
Birger Langkjær and Charlotte Sun Jensen
16. Introducing Characters in Television Crime Series: Stylistic and Narrative Strategies
Lennard Højbjerg
Index