Falling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1864870257 ISBN 13: 9781864870251

Publisher: Power Publications, Sydney, 2011

Synopsis

How do we understand and respond to performance in cinema? How does the performing body move through cinematic space and according to cinematic temporalities? Focusing on the work of the actor, but not simply about acting, Falling for You offers a range of theoretical approaches for illuminating the affective force of cinema. Concentrating on the work of important figures such as Welles, Cassavetes, Scorsese, Hartley, Ts'ai Ming-Liang, Chaplin, Keaton and Streisand, these essays will also be read for their inventive and persuasive readings of particular films and performers. In its lively curiosity about an under-theorised area, Falling For You brings an invigorating perspective to bear on performance and expands the imaginative horizon of cinema studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Lesley Stern and George Kouvaros teach in the School of Theatre, Film and Dance at the University of New South Wales. Other contributors include Chris Berry, Jodi Brooks, Ross Gibson, Laleen Jayamanne, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Lisa Trahair, and Sophie Wise.

Review:

The book brings together a collection of challenging writing that helps fill a particular need in film theory -- Canhill’s Film Notes 1999

‘Falling For You’ contains incisive observations about cinematic bodies and voices. -- Screening the Past: international electronic journal of visual media and history – June 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: Power Publications, Sydney
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1864870257
• ISBN 13: 9781864870251
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Stern Lesley, Kouvaros George