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Imagining the Method

Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2024
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2850-7 (ISBN)
56,10 inkl. MwSt
A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.

Only one performance style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: “Method acting.” The first reception-based analysis of film acting, Imagining the Method investigates how popular understandings of the so-called Method—what its author Justin Rawlins calls "methodness"—created an exclusive brand for white, male actors while associating such actors with rebellion and marginalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book maps the forces giving shape to methodness and policing its boundaries.

Imagining the Method traces the primordial conditions under which the Method was conceived. It explores John Garfield's tenuous relationship with methodness due to his identity. It considers the links between John Wayne's reliance on "anti-Method" stardom and Marlon Brando and James Dean's ascribed embodiment of Method features. It dissects contemporary emphases on transformation and considers the implications of methodness in the encoding of AI performers. Altogether, Justin Rawlins offers a revisionist history of the Method that shines a light on the cultural politics of methodness and the still-dominant assumptions about race, gender, and screen actors and acting that inform how we talk about performance and performers.

Justin Owen Rawlins is an assistant professor in the University of Tulsa's Departments of Media Studies and Film Studies.

Introduction. What We Talk about When We Talk about the Method
Chapter 1. Methodists and Method-ists: Primordial Ideas of Methodness
Chapter 2. Acting a Foil: John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and the Othering of Methodness
Chapter 3. James Dean’s Story: Posthumous Reception and Methodness Memorialized
Chapter 4. History in Hysteria: John Garfield and the Limits of Methodness
Chapter 5. Illogical Tomatoes to Inscrutable Feats: Methodness to the Present
Conclusion. Facing a Future Methodness
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 27 b&w photos
Verlagsort Austin, TX
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4773-2850-5 / 1477328505
ISBN-13 978-1-4773-2850-7 / 9781477328507
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