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This innovative and timely collection offers a wide-reaching
critical evaluation of performance in television, mapping out key
conventions, practices and concerns while introducing performance
theory and criticism to the established field of television
studies. Chapters from leading scholars move through a range of
examples from different styles and genres, from Game of Thrones to
America's Next Top Model. Individual performances are analysed in
close detail as the authors debate central questions of meaning,
value and achievement. Opening out new pathways for inquiry and
investigation, this book is an important touchstone for
undergraduate and postgraduate students of television, media and
theatre studies with an interest in the work of actors and
non-actors on screen.
This innovative and timely collection offers a wide-reaching
critical evaluation of performance in television, mapping out key
conventions, practices and concerns while introducing performance
theory and criticism to the established field of television
studies. Chapters from leading scholars move through a range of
examples from different styles and genres, from Game of Thrones to
America's Next Top Model. Individual performances are analysed in
close detail as the authors debate central questions of meaning,
value and achievement. Opening out new pathways for inquiry and
investigation, this book is an important touchstone for
undergraduate and postgraduate students of television, media and
theatre studies with an interest in the work of actors and
non-actors on screen.
Because they rely heavily on physical comedy, many Hollywood
slapstick films can be understood as comic meditations on the place
and nature of the human body. Focusing on the works of Charlie
Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy, among
others, this book examines ways that the body represents or
interacts with the mind, setting, voice and machines in slapstick
films. Also covered are female performances in slapstick and
brutality and suffering in the slapstick tradition.
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