The Amazing, Performing Film: Some Propositions

Year 2018, , 160 - 171, 30.06.2018

Adrian Martin

https://doi.org/10.31122/sinefilozofi.426841

Abstract

Film performance, as
I am defining it here, does not appear to have the right characteristics to fit
any of these proposed alternatives to the mainstream norm. Rather, it very
quickly and easily sinks in with the bad status quo; there seems nowhere else
to put it.

Keywords

film performance, Theory, performing film, propositions

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