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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Nous Pathetikos
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Hits
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Experts in Being?
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About this book
Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fields of both theatre and philosophy. The art of acting on stage is analysed here not only from the theoretical perspective of a spectator, but also from the perspective of the actor. The author draws on her experience as both a theatre actor and a university professor whose teachings in the art of acting rely heavily on her own experience and also on her philosophical knowledge. The book is unique not only in terms of its content but also in terms of its style. Written in a multiplicity of voices, the text oscillates between philosophical reasoning and narrative forms of writing, including micro-narratives, fables, parables, and inter alia by Carroll, Hoffmann and Kleist. Hence the book claims that a trans-disciplinary dialogue between the art of acting and the art of philosophical thinking calls for an aesthetical research that questions and begins to seek alternatives to traditionally established and ingrained formats of philosophy.
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About the author
Susanne Valerie is a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. As an actress she has performed at national state theatres throughout the German-speaking world. Parallel to her career in acting, she was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy by the University of Vienna in 1995. With the philosopher Arno Boehler she founded the Viennese art factory GRENZ_film and the international festival 'Philosophy on Stage'.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Actors and the Art of Performance
Book Subtitle: Under Exposure
Authors: Susanne Valerie
Series Title: Performance Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137596345
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59633-8Published: 25 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59634-5Published: 12 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-5589
Series E-ISSN: 2057-7176
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 120
Topics: Screenwriting, Screen Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Philosophy, general, Performing Arts