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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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Theater --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Drama --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Study and teaching --- 792.01 --- 792.027 --- 792.028.3 --- 792.028.3 Theater: presentatie; acteren --- Theater: presentatie; acteren --- 792.027 Theaterregie --- Theaterregie --- 792.01 Theater: theorie; esthetica --- Theater: theorie; esthetica --- Didactics of the arts --- Theatrical science

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Basisonderwijs --- Enseignement primaire --- Théâtre --- Toneel --- toneelspelen --- dramatische expressie --- basisonderwijs --- toneel --- didactiek --- kindertheater --- 477.2 --- 477.2 ) Dramatische expressie --- Acteren --- Dramatische expressie ; basisonderwijs --- Schooltoneel --- Toneel ; kinderen --- Expressie: lagere school --- muzische vorming --- didactiek basisonderwijs - dramatische expressie, spel en beweging, verbale expressie --- Dramatische vorming --- #BSCH: vak : muziek --- Schoolbooks - Didactic material --- Creatief denken (Opvoeding) --- Enfants comme acteurs --- Pensée créatrice (Education) --- Kinderen als acteurs --- leerkrachten en begeleiders in jeugd- en vormingswerk

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Publisher description: Passing Performances gathers a range of critical and biographical essays on notable personalities whose major contributions to the stage occurred before 1969, the year of the Stonewall riots that kicked off the gay rights movement in the United States. How these theater practitioners variously "passed"-- i.e., managed unconventional sexual inclinations both on- and offstage--significantly determined the course of their personal and professional lives and thus the course of U.S. theater history. The actors, directors, producers, and agents examined here include Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, and Adah Isaacs Menken, whose personal lives and careers traded on the same-sex erotics of "true love" in the antebellum period Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Elsie Janis, Nance O'Neil, and Alla Nazimova, whose intimate female liaisons were variously interpreted around the turn of the century the "lavender marriages" of Alfred Lunt to Lynne Fontanne and Guthrie McClintic to Katharine Cornell the lesbian collaborations of Margaret Webster and Cheryl Crawford the comic antics of Monty Woolley, which negotiated codified constructions of homosexual perversion in the post-Freudian interwar years and the on- and offstage performances of Mary Martin and Joe Cino, which resisted the paranoid enforcements of heterosexual normality in the McCarthy era. Central to these investigations are the complex connections of performances of sexuality and gender and their different implications for men and women practitioners working under pervasive sexism and homophobia. The volume also includes striking archival photographs of the performers and their performances, and an index to facilitate the cross-referencing of subjects' intersecting careers.

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