Overview

This book approaches film and television acting from an actor's perspective rather than that of an audience member, and therefore theorizes how screen acting works as a process that engages an actor's memory, imagination, emotions, and physical body in the creation of a character. It argues that film actors strive to perform profound empathetic connections with their characters and fellow actors, and then put themselves out there through performing to make those connections clear to the eventual audience. It combines interviews with working professional film and television actors, key insights and methods from Film, Television, and Theatre Studies, and theories of imagination and embodiment to show that screen actors are more than just ""the moving parts"" of the mise-en-scene.

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9781474484138

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"How are we moved by actors on screen? This excellent book reframes the analysis of screen acting to highlight the actor's creative agency in generating empathy. Drawing on professional practice and cognitive neuroscience, Leberg creates an impressively well researched conceptual scaffold that is inspiring, lucid, and far reaching.--Rick Kemp, author of Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance In this important contribution to the study of screen acting, Leberg weaves together research from the cognitive sciences, different ""Method"" approaches to actor training, and his deeply-informed, practical experience as an actor to illuminate the process of creating moving performances on film. Screen Acting is an insightful and engaging book.--Amy Cook, author of Building Character"

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Dan Leberg, Lecturer, Amsterdam University College and the University of Groningen.

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