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Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, examining the allure of the performing arts for both the artist and the audience member while addressing the paradoxes inherent in acting itself. He reflects on the casting process, on stage versus film acting, and on the cult of celebrity. The art and considerable craft of such gifted artists as Meryl Streep, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Daniel Day-Lewis, and others are scrupulously appraised here, as are notions of "good" and "bad" acting. Thomson's exploration is at once a meditation on and a celebration of a unique and much beloved, often misunderstood, and occasionally derided art form. He argues that acting not only "matters" but is essential and inescapable, as well as dangerous, chronic, transformative, and exhilarating, be it on the theatrical stage, on the movie screen, or as part of our everyday lives.

Acting. --- Histrionics --- Stage --- Elocution --- Theater --- Acting --- film --- filmgeschiedenis --- filmtheorie --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- filmacteurs --- filmactrices --- acteren --- 791.41

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Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept of enunciation to articulate how films "speak" and explore where this communication occurs, offering critical direction for theorists who struggle with the phenomena of new media. If a film frame contains another frame, which frame do we emphasize? And should we consider this staging an impersonal act of enunciation? Consulting a range of genres and national trends, Metz builds a novel theory around the placement and subjectivity of screens within screens, which pulls in-and forces him to reassess-his work on authorship, film language, and the position of the spectator. Metz again takes up the linguistic and theoretical work of Benveniste, Genette, Casetti, and Bordwell, drawing surprising conclusions that presage current writings on digital media. Metz's analysis enriches work on cybernetic emergence, self-assembly, self-reference, hypertext, and texts that self-produce in such a way that the human element disappears. A critical introduction by Cormac Deane bolsters the connection between Metz's findings and nascent digital-media theory, emphasizing Metz's keen awareness of the methodological and philosophical concerns we wrestle with today.

film --- filmtheorie --- twintigste eeuw --- semiotiek --- semiologie --- 791.41 --- Motion pictures --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History. --- History and criticism

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Cet essai s’organise autour de quelques objets choisis dans le cinéma américain, relevant tous de la figuration humaine et mettant en jeu le corps de l’homme. À travers des films de Cecil B. DeMille, Don Siegel, Keaton et Preminger, il s’agit d’étudier comment l’homme filmique, dessaisi de soi par les variations de la syntaxe figurative, se trouve relégué au rôle de motif iconographique, jouxtant de près le décor au point de s’y confondre : devenir accessoire de l’homme, où se donne à voir l’avènement de la figurine, soit une image de l’inhumain. Reprendre le problème de la représentation au cinéma c’est ainsi revenir à une hypothèse critique, qui pourrait rendre concevable un Autre de la figure.

Motion pictures --- Philosophy --- CDL --- 791.41 --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Cinematography --- History and criticism --- Philosophy. --- Motion pictures - Philosophy --- image --- cinéma --- États-Unis

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Providing a clear, systematic account of the evolution of Bellour's thought on the nature of cinematic representation, the impact of digital technology and the response of the spectator, this is an essential guide to the work of a major contemporary thinker.

Bellour, Raymond. --- Film criticism --- film --- filmtheorie --- Frankrijk --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Bellour Raymond --- filmanalyse --- kunst --- videokunst --- digitale kunst --- nieuwe media --- 791.41 --- Motion picture criticism --- Motion pictures --- Moving-picture criticism --- Criticism --- Evaluation --- Film criticism. --- Filmkritik. --- Bellour, Raymond, --- Bellour, Raymond

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Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Michel Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives us to read on screen. He analyzes titles, credits, and intertitles, but also less obvious forms of writing that appear on screen, from the tear-stained letter in a character's hand to reversed writing seen in mirrors. Through this examination, Chion delves into the multitude of roles that words on screen play: how they can generate narrative, be torn up or consumed but still remain in the viewer's consciousness, take on symbolic dimensions, and bear every possible relation to cinematic space. Chion performs an inventory of the possibilities of written text in the film image. Taking examples from hundreds of films spanning years and genres, from the silents to the present, he probes the ways that words on screen are used and their implications for film analysis and theory. In the process, he opens up and unearths the specific poetry of visual text in film.--From publisher descrption.

Writing in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Aesthetics --- Motion picture titling --- Motion picture subtitling --- Titling of motion pictures --- Titling. --- Aesthetics. --- Subtitling --- Writing in motion pictures --- film --- filmgeschiedenis --- filmtheorie --- woord en beeld --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- filmtitels --- 791.41 --- Titling