Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsList 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
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