Cornea Genre and performance: film and television

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2983-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cornea, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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