Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. Contents 5
4. Foreword
5. »›Always Too Small or Too Tall‹«: Rescaling Screen Performance 11
6. Introduction
7. Etymological Uncoveries, Creative Displays: Acting as Force and Performance as Eloquence in Moving Image Culture 51
8. Presentations and Representations
9. Spectacular Acting: On the Exhibitionist Dynamics of Film Star Performance 61
10. Cary Grant: Acting Style and Genre in Classical Hollywood Cinema 71
11. Mimesis and Narration: The Performance of Actors and Cinematic Point of View in The Lady Eve and The Virgin Suicides 87
12. Postfeminist Portrayals of Masculinity and Femininity in Action Films: Mr. & Mrs. Smith 101
13. Quantum of Craig: Daniel Craig and the Body of the New Bond 115
14. Appearances and Encounters
15. Actor/Character Dualism: The Case of Luis Buñuel’s Paradoxical Characters 131
16. Frames for Ambivalence: Acting out Realism in Italian Neorealism and the Films of Christian Petzold 145
17. The Actor as an Icon of Presence: The Example of Delphine Seyrig 159
18. Living Pictures: From Tableaux Vivants to Puppets and Para-Selves 177
19. All about Gena, Myrtle and Virginia: The Transitional Nature of Actress, Role and Character 195
20. Affects and Affections
21. A Surrealist Turn: Transformative Gestures in The Birds 211
22. Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Becoming-Violence of Performance 233
23. Dangerous Liaisons and Counterfeit Affections: Cinema as Seduction 247
24. An Inscrutable Face: Nicole Kidman in Dogville 259
25. Character-Witness, Actor-Medium 275
26. Actions and Animations
27. Between Image and Volatility: Framing Motion in Dance and Film 291
28. The Temporal Dimensions of Screen Performances: Exploring Expressive Movement in Live Action and Animated Film 303
29. Carnicke Emotional Expressivity in Motion Picture Capture Technology 321
30. Going Native with Pandora’s (Tool) Box: Spiritual and Technological Conversions in James Cameron’s Avatar 339
31. Double Negative: The Actor, the Non- Actor, and the Animated Documentary 363
32. Reflections and Perspectives
33. Bodies of Light: Towards a Theory about Film Acting from a Communicative Perspective 379
34. Thinking through Acting: Performative Indices and Philosophical Assertions 395
35. An Emphasis on Being: Moving towards a Responsive Phenomenology of Film(’s) Performance 413
36. Being on the Screen: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Flesh, or the Actor’s Four Bodies 429
37. Passion and Exposure: New Paradoxes of the Actor 447
38. Contributors 479