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Title

  • Actors and the art of performance : under exposure

Names

  • Valerie, Susanne, author
  • Lagaay, Alice, translator
  • Radosh, Laura, translator

Created / Published

  • Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  • ©2016

Contents

  • Part I: Hits -- 1. Auditorium X -- Double stalemate -- Turning point, peripeteia -- Turn around -- i, mine -- 2. Speculations -- Actors' fears -- Crying -- Child's play -- Exposed -- With-out me -- 3. Black out -- First time at the theater -- Part II: Experts in being? -- 4. The actor: A creature of fable -- why do you want to be an actor? -- 5. The Causa Corpora -- The kiss of Olympia -- Machine against man -- The actor's trump card -- 6. The gift of acting -- Skipping -- Prejudice -- Subject-based thinking versus stage experience -- Master and servant -- Bodies on stage -- Innocence of becoming -- Language and speaking -- Digesting speech -- Counterwords -- The Other, the others -- Affect versus thought -- Thinking and acting -- Repetition -- 7. The gift of death -- Tu es mort -- Theater as a symbolic death -- Point of no return -- Felicity -- a salto mortale -- Our friend Touchstone -- 8. Finale and punctum -- Why do you want to be an actor?

Headings

  • -  Acting--Philosophy
  • -  Acting
  • -  Actresses
  • -  Performance art
  • -  Performing arts
  • -  Theater--Philosophy

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 08/27/2020)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (xi, 120 pages ) : illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN2061

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019666846

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Valerie, Susanne, Author. Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure. translateds by Lagaay, Alicelator, and Radosh, Lauralator [Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire England ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, . ©, 2016] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019666846/.

APA citation style:

Valerie, S. (2016) Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure. Lagaay, A. & Radosh, L., transs [Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire England ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, . ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019666846/.

MLA citation style:

Valerie, Susanne, Author. Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure. trans by Lagaay, Alicelator, and Radosh, Lauralator [Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire England ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, . ©, 2016] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019666846/>.