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Building Character - The Art and Science of Casting (Paperback)
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Building Character - The Art and Science of Casting (Paperback)
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What can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves
by examining the casting we find on stage and film-the casting we
find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character
examines how the process of "casting" an actor in a part creates a
character and how this can be usefully understood through deploying
theories from the cognitive sciences. A casting director may match
the perceived qualities of an actor with the perceived qualities of
the character, but the combination is also synergistic; casting a
character creates qualities. While casting directors do this
professionally, all of us do this when we make sense of the people
around us. This book argues that we build the characters of others
from a sea of stimuli and that the process of watching actors take
on roles improves our ability to "cast" those roles in our daily
lives. Amy Cook examines the visible celebrity casting, such as
Robert Downey Jr. as Ironman or Judi Dench as Bond's M, the
political casting of one candidate as "presidential" and another as
"weak," the miscasting of racial profiling and sexual assault, and
the counter casting that results when actors and characters are not
where or who we expect.
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