Exploring Television Acting

Dr Tom Cantrell is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York, UK. He has published on modern British drama on stage and screen, documentary theatre and acting processes. Dr Christopher Hogg is Senior Lecturer in Television Theory at the University of Westminster, UK. He has published on a wide range of topics, including work on British television drama, television acting and international television format adaptation.

Exploring Television Acting: An Introduction
Tom Cantrell and Christopher Hogg

Television Acting: Histories and Inheritances
1 Performing Sherlock: A Study in Studio and Location Realism
Richard Hewett
2 ‘Visible’ and ‘Invisible’ Performance: Framing Performance in 1970s Television
Douglas McNaughton
3 ‘No-nonsense Rozzer’: Philip Glenister/Gene Hunt, Life on Mars and the Particularity of Television Acting
Stephen Lacey

Television Acting: Approaches and Perspectives
4 ‘The Organic and the Technical’: a Psychophysical Approach to Television Acting
Tom Cantrell
5 Viola Davis: A Context for Her Craft and Success in Series Television
Cynthia Baron
6 ‘I’m going in there GC style’: Performance and Performative Contracts within a Crossover of Reality Television Environments
Louise Cope
7 Truth and ‘Truthiness’ in Acting the Real
Derek Paget

Television Acting: Training and Industry
8 Exploring Actor Training for Television
Trevor Rawlins
9 Accent on Talent: The Valorization of British Actors on American Quality Television
Christine Becker
10 Exploring the Casting of British and Irish Actors in Contemporary US Television and Film
Simone Knox
11 Well-being and the Television Actor: Challenges and Coping Strategies
Christopher Hogg and Charlotte Lucy Smith