Overview
This volume offers transdisciplinary perspectives on the study of acting and performance in moving image forms. It assembles 26 international scholars from dance, theatre, film, media and cultural studies, art history and philosophy to investigate the art of acting and the presence of the human body in analog and digital film, animation and video art. The volume includes classical case studies and essays devoted to acting history and acting and genres, but its particular emphasis is on introducing a wide range of groundbreaking theoretical approaches - from continental and analytic philosophy to new media theory and cognitivist research - all of which interrogate the fundamental conceptions of ?act? and ?actor? that underwrite both popular and academic notions of performance in moving image culture.
Full Product Details
Author: Jörg Sternagel ,
Deborah Levitt ,
Dieter Mersch ,
Lesley Stern
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 1.521kg
ISBN: 9783837616484
ISBN 10: 3837616487
Pages: 488
Publication Date: 08 December 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
»Der Sammelband ist nicht einfach eine weitere Publikation, die der Beziehung zwischen neuen Technologien und Schauspiel gewidmet ist, und er bietet mehr als einen Überblick über schauspielerische Performance in zeitgenössischen Massenmedien, nämlich vor allem Ansatzpunkte für neue analytische sowie theoretische Zugänge.« Mattia Lento, NCCR Mediality Newsletter, 9 (2013) Reviewed in: GMK-Newsletter, 11/12 (2012)
Author Information
Jörg Sternagel (Dr. phil. habil.) works as »Akademischer Rat« at the chair of media studies with a focus on digital culture at Universität Passau. He is a member of the advisory board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik. His research focuses on alterity, imagery, mediality and performativity. Deborah Levitt is Assistant Professor in Culture and Media Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York City. She is a media historian and theorist. Her research focuses on media, biopolitics, and rhetorics of life. Dieter Mersch (Prof. Dr. em.) is former head of the Institute for Critical Theory at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and former president of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik. His fields of work include philosophical aesthetics, media philosophy, image theory, and the philosophy of music. {0000002532}Thomas Strässle (Prof. Dr.) is head of the Institute for Transdisciplinarity (Y Institute) at the Hochschule der Künste Bern and professor of modern German and comparative literature at the Universität Zürich. His fields of work include German literature from the 17th to the 21st century in a European context and the relationship between literature and other arts, especially music and material aesthetics.
