The art of becoming : performance, temporality, and the composition of the filmic body in contemporary cinema

Film performances have long served as a point of contention in Film Studies. The elusive nature of the art form is often overlooked, and consequently approached via history, star studies, or in reducing a performance to the mise-en-scène. The aim of this thesis is to theoretically root film performa...

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Main Author: Brooks, Andrea Katherine
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54341