Acting and its Refusal in Theatre and Film Psychology

Acting and its Refusal in Theatre and Film PsychologyActing has traditionally been considered a form of pretending or falsehood, compared with the so called reality or truth of everyday life. Yet in the postmodern era, a reversal has occurred real life is revealed as something acted and acting is where people have begun to search for truth. In Acting and its Refusal in Theatre and Film, Marian McCurdy considers the ethical desire of refusing to act which results from blurred boundaries of acting and

The Red Shoes and her film The Line

using forensic photographs to argue for the centrality of the perception and representation of time in photographic narrativity

The book also provides an analysis of the major works of three European directors – Billy Wilder

yet it is a wildly inventive experimental work that dispels traditional forms of narration

Jacki Apple’s Performance / Media / Art / Culture traces performance art

generations and languages that make up contemporary Europe

fleeting impression

Point Blank is forging a radical new vision of twenty-first-century theatre

This book presents latest research developments in the area of functional programming

its disregard for the subject and its will

matthew heinz offers an examination of mediated and experienced transmasculine subjectivities and aims to capture the apparent contradictions that structure transmasculine experience

amorality and lust for power underpinning them