Exploring Television Acting

✍ Scribed by Tom Cantrell; Christopher Hogg

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 208
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The first collection of its kind to bring together scholarly and practitioner perspectives, this book analyses the experiences, skills and techniques of actors when working on television. Featuring eleven chapters by internationally distinguished researchers and actor trainers, this collection examines the acting processes and resulting performances of some of the most acclaimed television actors.
Topics include: studio and location realism; actor training for television; actor well-being in the television industry; performance in reality television and British and Irish actors in contemporary US television and film. The book also contains case studies examining the work of Emmy-award-winning actor Viola Davis and the iconic character of Gene Hunt in Life on Mars (BBC, 2006–2007).

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Television Acting: Histories and Inheritances
1. Performing Sherlock: A study in studio and location realism
2. Visible' andinvisible' performance: Framing performance in 1970s television drama
3. No- nonsense rozzer': Philip Glenister/Gene Hunt, Life on Mars and the particularity of television acting Part Two: Television Acting: Approaches and Perspectives 4.The organic and the technical': A psychophysical approach to television acting
5. Viola Davis: A context for her craft and success in series television
6. I'm going in there GC style': Performance and performative contracts within a crossover of reality television environments 7. Truth andtruthiness' in acting the real
Part Three: Television Acting: Training and Industry
8. Exploring actor training for television
9. Accent on talent: The valorization of British actors on American quality television
10. Exploring the casting of British and Irish actors in contemporary US television and film
11. Well-being and the television actor: Challenges and coping strategies
Index

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