Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How
is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the
theater? As the first philosophical study devoted to acting, "Acts:
Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self" sheds light on some
of the more evasive aspects of the acting experience-- such as the
import of the actor's voice, the ethical unease sometimes felt
while embodying particular sequences, and the meaning of
inspiration. Tzachi Zamir explores acting's relationship to
everyday role-playing through a surprising range of examples of
"lived acting," including pornography, masochism, and eating
disorders. By unearthing the deeper mobilizing structures that
underlie dissimilar forms of staged and non-staged role-playing,
"Acts "offers a multi-layered meditation on the percolation from
acting to life.
The book engages questions of theatrical inspiration, the
actor's "energy," the difference between acting and pretending, the
special role of repetition as part of live acting, the audience and
its attraction to acting, and the unique significance of the
actor's voice. It examines the embodied nature of the actor's
animation of a fiction, the breakdown of the distinction between
what one acts and who one is, and the transition from what one
performs into who one is, creating an interdisciplinary meditation
on the relationship between life and acting.
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