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Overview"A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of ""methodness"" to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today. Only one acting style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: ""Method acting."" The first reception-based analysis of film acting, Imagining the Method investigates how popular understandings of the so-called Method-what its author Justin Rawlins calls ""methodness""-created an exclusive brand for white, male actors while associating such actors with rebellion and marginalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book maps the forces giving shape to methodness and policing its boundaries. Imagining the Method traces the primordial conditions under which the Method was conceived. It explores John Garfield's tenuous relationship with methodness due to his identity. It considers the links between John Wayne's reliance on ""anti-Method"" stardom and Marlon Brando and James Dean's ascribed embodiment of Method features. It dissects contemporary emphases on transformation and considers the implications of methodness in the encoding of AI performers. Altogether, Justin Rawlins offers a revisionist history of the Method that shines a light on the cultural politics of methodness and the still-dominant assumptions about race, gender, and screen actors and acting that inform how we talk about performance and performers." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Justin Owen RawlinsPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781477328507ISBN 10: 1477328505 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 06 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction. What We Talk about When We Talk about the Method Chapter 1. Methodists and Method-ists: Primordial Ideas of Methodness Chapter 2. Acting a Foil: John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and the Othering of Methodness Chapter 3. James Dean’s Story: Posthumous Reception and Methodness Memorialized Chapter 4. History in Hysteria: John Garfield and the Limits of Methodness Chapter 5. Illogical Tomatoes to Inscrutable Feats: Methodness to the Present Conclusion. Facing a Future Methodness Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJustin Owen Rawlins is an assistant professor in the University of Tulsa's Departments of Media Studies and Film Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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