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La question de savoir ce que l'acteur vit lorsqu'il incarne un personnage, soit qu’elle ait été présentée comme relevant d’une expérience quasi mystique, soit qu’elle ait donné lieu à des débats philosophiques ou esthétiques les plus divers, a depuis longtemps et continue aujourd’hui encore, de susciter la curiosité et l’intérêt des chercheurs. Comment, en effet, appréhender cette expérience si singulière au cours de laquelle un homme se met à vivre irréellement dans les émotions et les sensations d’un être imaginaire?C’est en croisant différentes approches portant sur cette question que cet ouvrage se propose d’y répondre. De Diderot à Sartre et en passant par Deleuze, il présente tout d’abord différents discours théoriques traitant de cette expérience, puis rend compte des démarches plus contemporaines relevant de la phénoménologie expérientielle, de l’anthropologie ou de la psychologie, qui puisent à même la parole des acteurs les données empiriques de leurs développements théoriques. Enfin, il montre que la diversité des expériences de jeu est elle-même fonction de celle des écritures si différentes d’un dramaturge à l’autre
Acting --- Actors --- Acteurs. --- Art dramatique.
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Hardworking actor, playwright, and stage manager Harry Watkins (1825-94) was also a prolific diarist. For fifteen years Watkins regularly recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Performing across the U.S., Watkins collaborated with preeminent performers and producers, recording his successes and failures as well as his encounters with celebrities such as P. T. Barnum, Junius Brutus Booth, Edwin Forrest, Anna Cora Mowatt, and Lucy Stone. His is the only known diary of substantial length and scope written by a U.S. actor before the Civil War-making Watkins, essentially, the antebellum equivalent of Samuel Pepys. Theater historians Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs have selected, edited, and annotated excerpts from the diary in an edition that offers a vivid glimpse of how ordinary people like Watkins lived, loved, struggled, and triumphed during one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history. The selections in A Player and a Gentleman are drawn from a more expansive digital archive of the complete diary. The book, like its digital counterpart, will richly enhance our knowledge of antebellum theater culture and daily life in the U.S. during this period.
Actors --- Theater --- History --- Watkins, Harry, --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Watkins, H. --- Harry Watkins
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"As a Ziegfeld Follies girl and film actress, Justine Johnstone was celebrated as "the most beautiful woman in the world." She abruptly retired from acting at 31. For the remainder of her life, she was a pathologist. The first full-length biography of Johnstone chronicles her extraordinary success in two male-dominated fields--show business and medical science"--
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Movies --- Autobiography --- Actors --- United States of America
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"A contender for every heavyweight championship 1932-1941, California's "Glamour Boy" Max Baer was a draw for promoters during the Great Depression. This first comprehensive biography covers Baer's complete ring record (adding 70 new bouts), his early life, his career on radio, film, stage and television, and his World War II Army service"--
Boxers (Sports) --- Jewish boxers --- Actors --- Baer, Max,
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Non-State Actors and International Obligations examines the contribution and relevance of non-state actors in the creation and implementation of international obligations. These actors have traditionally been marginalised within international law and ambiguities remain over their precise role. Nonetheless, they have become increasingly important in legal regimes as participants in their implementation and enforcement, and as potential holders of duties themselves. Chapters from academics and practitioners investigate different aspects of this relationship, including the sources of obligations, their implementation, human rights aspects, dispute settlement, responsibility and legal accountability.
Non-state actors (International relations) --- NGAs (International relations) --- Non-governmental actors (International relations) --- Nongovernmental actors (International relations) --- Non-state entities (International relations) --- Nonstate entities (International relations) --- Nonstate actors (International relations) --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- International relations
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From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political and military positions and reports that deputies to the National Assembly were taking acting lessons and planting paid "claqueurs" in the audience to applaud their employers on demand. Meanwhile, in a mock national assembly that gathered in an enormous circus pavilion in the center of Paris, spectators paid for the privilege of acting the role of political representatives for a day.Paul Friedland argues that politics and theater became virtually indistinguishable during the Revolutionary period because of a parallel evolution in the theories of theatrical and political representation. Prior to the mid-eighteenth century, actors on political and theatrical stages saw their task as embodying a fictional entity-in one case a character in a play, in the other, the corpus mysticum of the French nation. Friedland details the significant ways in which after 1750 the work of both was redefined. Dramatic actors were coached to portray their parts abstractly, in a manner that seemed realistic to the audience. With the creation of the National Assembly, abstract representation also triumphed in the political arena. In a break from the past, this legislature did not claim to be the nation, but rather to speak on its behalf. According to Friedland, this new form of representation brought about a sharp demarcation between actors-on both stages-and their audience, one that relegated spectators to the role of passive observers of a performance that was given for their benefit but without their direct participation. Political Actors, a landmark contribution to eighteenth-century studies, furthers understanding not only of the French Revolution but also of the very nature of modern representative democracy.
Actors --- Theater --- Political activity --- Political aspects --- History --- France
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"Hamlet is arguably the most famous play on the planet, and the greatest of all Shakespeare's works. Its rich story and complex leading role have provoked intense debate and myriad interpretations. To play such a uniquely multi-faceted character as Hamlet represents the supreme challenge for a young actor. Performing Hamlet contains Jonathan Croall's revealing in-depth interviews with five distinguished actors who have played the Prince this century: Jude Law: 'You get to speak possibly the most beautiful lines about humankind ever given to an actor.' Simon Russell Beale: 'Hamlet is a very hospitable role: it will take anything you throw at it.' David Tennant: 'No other part has been so satisfying. It was tough, but utterly compelling.' Maxine Peake: 'Hamlet was a way of accessing bits of me as an actress I've not been able to access before.' Adrian Lester: 'Working with Peter Brook on Hamlet changed me as an actor, and for the better.' The book benefits from the author's interviews with six leading directors of the play during these years: Greg Doran, Nicholas Hytner, Michael Grandage, John Caird, Sarah Frankcom and Simon Godwin. Many other productions are described, from those starring Michael Redgrave, Alec Guinness and Paul Scofield in the 1950s, to the performances of Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Scott and Paapa Essiedu in recent times. The volume also includes an updated text of the author's earlier book Hamlet Observed, and an account of actors' experiences of performing at Elsinore."--
Shakespearean actors and actresses. --- Acting --- Philosophy. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Stage history.
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