Non-Professional Film Acting (häftad, eng)

This anthology examines non-professional performance in cinema, exploring how "ordinary people" challenge dominant theories of film acting across fiction, documentary, and realist media aesthetics. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of non-professional acting through diverse critical approaches ranging from neorealism to reality TV.

This book delivers fresh insights by analyzing films from Asia, Palestine, Europe, Brazil, Africa, and North America, examining acting methods, directorial approaches, political commitment, and community representation. Authors unpack the realist aesthetics of "authenticity" to reveal the visual and social effects of casting non-actors, while highlighting the precarity and lived experiences of non-professional performers before, during, and after filming.

This multifaceted analysis provides new theoretical frameworks for understanding the aesthetics and politics of non-professional film performance. This book is written for students and practitioners of documentary and independent cinema seeking deeper understanding of performance aesthetics and politics.

Scholars of film acting, film criticism, and media studies will find the complex critical questions and theoretical approaches particularly engaging. The collection is also suitable for courses in film theory, documentary studies, and cinema studies programmes.

Format	Häftad
Omfång	280 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Utgivningsdatum	2026-07-24
ISBN	9781032983059