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Acts : theater, philosophy, and the performing self / Tzachi Zamir.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zamir, Tzachi, 1967-
- Series:
- Theater--text/theory/performance.
- Theater: theory/text/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acting--Philosophy.
- Acting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first philosophical study devoted solely to acting, offering a meditation on the spillover from acting to life.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Life on the stage. What actors do
- Kinds of existential amplification
- The experience of amplification
- Watching actors
- Listening to actors
- Staging fictions. Staging words
- Staging literature
- Staging objects
- Between life and stage. Unethical acts
- Pornography and acting
- Life as stage. The theatricalization of love
- The theatricalization of death
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472072132
- 0472072137
- 9780472120291
- 0472120298
- OCLC:
- 883820153
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.6610419
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