Cue Tears
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-05690-3 (ISBN)
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Across seven semi-autonomous essays, Cue Tears looks at the mechanisms of tear production, internal and external techniques that actors use to weep, and the effects of tears in performance situations on the stage, in the gallery, and in the classroom. The writing moves with a light touch between theory and criticism of a broad range of instances from literature, theater, performance art, visual art, and cinema, while also embracing a strong autobiographical and personal slant. Author Daniel Sack’s father was a biochemist who studied tears and collected his son’s tears for research during his childhood. These “reflex tears” were produced as a physical response to irritation—an eye stretched past the point of blinking, a cotton swab up the nose. This childhood occupation coincided with his first years taking acting classes, trying to learn how to cry “emotional tears” onstage through psychological stimulation and the recollection of memory. Cue Tears investigates these memories and methods, finding that tears both shore up and dissolve distinctions between truth and artifice, emotional and physical, private and public, sad and humorous.
Daniel Sack is Professor in the Department of English and the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His other books include After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance and Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage.
Acknowledgments
1. Learning How to Cry
2. On the Nature of Tears: A Semi-Fictional Dialogue
3. I’m Too Sad to Tell You: On the Private Language of Tears
I. Bas Jan Ader’s I’m Too Sad to Tell You
II. Wu Tsang’s The Shape of a Right Statement
III. Ann Buchanan’s Girl Who Cries a Tear 4. Learning How to Cry (Again): Or, How Actors Keep Feeling the Past
I. Crying Men (Crying Actors)
II. The Paradox of the (Weeping) Actor
III. Bullying the Actor (the Actor Bullying) 5. The Weeper’s Toolbox: An Incomplete Catalog of Prosthetics, Props, and Prompts
I. Prosthetics
II. Props
III. Prompts
6. On Getting Water from a Stone: Or, Do Androids Weep Electric Tears?
I. Hol(e)y Statues
II. The Drowned Puppet
III. Robots in the Rain
7. Teaching How to Cry
Bibliography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.7.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | 13 photos |
Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 137 x 203 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-472-05690-5 / 0472056905 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-05690-3 / 9780472056903 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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