Screening Characters

Screening Characters

Theories of Character in Film, Television, and Interactive Media

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2019

332

Dura

Inglês

9781138391826

15 a 20 dias

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CONTENTS List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Foreword: Consorting with Characters Murray Smith Introduction: Screening Characters Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor Part 1: The Importance of Actors 1. Seeing and Hearing Screen Characters: Stars, Twofoldness, and the Imagination Ted Nannicelli 2. Character and the Star Vehicle: The Impact of Casting Cary Grant Kathrina Glitre 3. Character Collaborations: The Writer-Actor Relationship in Mad Men R. Colin Tait Part 2: Social Types, Social Contexts 4. Being Typical and Being Individual Henry Bacon 5. The Mark of the Social: Stereotypes, Folk Psychology and Metonymy in Mainstream Film Tico Romao 6. Racialized Disgust and Character in Film Dan Flory Part 3: Medium-Specific Features and Constraints 7. Impossible Characterizations Paisley Livingston 8. Performative Metamorphosis: Animated Characters and Spectator Proximity Pete Sillett 9. Social Media as Interface, or How Characters Enter Our Everyday Reality Philippe Gauthier 10. Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games Andreas Gregersen Part 4: Emotional and Moral Engagement 11. Ethical Criticism and Fictional Characters as Moral Agents Carl Plantinga 12. Absorbed Character Engagement: From Social Cognition Responses to the Experience of Fictional Constructions Katalin Balint and Ed Tan 13. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt:" Why Fascination, Rather than Repeat Exposure, Better Explains the Appeal of Antiheroes on Television Malcolm Turvey Part 5: The Character within Genres 14. Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media Jinhee Choi 15. Action and Affordances: The Action Hero's Skilled and Surprising Use of the Environment Birger Langkjaer and Charlotte Sun Jensen 16. Introducing Characters in Television Crime Series: Stylistic and Narrative Strategies Lennard Hojbjerg Index
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