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BL
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706804
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b528993
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Baron, Cynthia,1954-
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| Title & Author
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Reframing screen performance /\ Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, c2008
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301 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0472050257 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0472070258 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780472050253 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780472070251 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-290) and index
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| Contents
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PART I: Cinema's varied use of gestures and expressions. Crafting, not capturing "natural" behavior on film -- Giving performance elements their due -- Thinking systematically about acting. PART II: Performance elements, cinematic conventions, and cultural traditions. Ostensive signs and performance montage -- Case study: Chaplin in city lights -- Acting choices and changing cinematic conventions -- Case studies: adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet -- Acting styles and cultural-aesthetic traditions -- Case studies: seven Samurai and the magnificent seven. PART III: Terms and concepts from the craft of acting -- Delsarte and the dynamics of human expression -- Case study: smoke -- Laban: temporal and spatial dimensions of movement -- Case study: training day -- Stanislavsky: players' actions as a window into characters' interactions -- Case study: The Grifters
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| Subject
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Motion picture acting
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| LC Classification
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PN1995.9.A26B35 2008
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| Added Entry
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Carnicke, Sharon Marie,1949-
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