Chapter 10. Playing Peter Parker Spider-Man and Superhero Film Performance

2017 ◽  
pp. 268-296
Author(s):  
Aaron Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Film Performance

Advances in magnetic films of epsilon-iron oxide toward next-generation high-density recording media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko Tokoro ◽  
Asuka Namai ◽  
Shin-ichi Ohkoshi
Keyword(s):  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Magnetic Films ◽  
High Density ◽  
Recording Media ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Magnetic Recording Media ◽  
Film Performance ◽  
High Density Recording ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
High Density Magnetic Recording

Recent developments in magnetic films composed of epsilon-iron oxide are introduced. The film performance is studied and improved toward the next-generation of high-density magnetic recording media.

Geraldine Chaplin

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Rybin
Keyword(s):  
Film Performance ◽  
Film Directors ◽  
The Gift

The most distinguished actor among Charlie Chaplin’s children, Geraldine Chaplin has created a striking performative presence across international cinema. In shifting cinematic contexts and through collaborations with major film directors, she playfully evokes the memory of her iconic father, while establishing her own distinctive screen art. Geraldine Chaplin: The Gift of Film Performance is a long-overdue appreciation of Chaplin’s remarkable screen achievements, and includes close readings of her performances in films such as Doctor Zhivago, Peppermint Frappé, Cría cuervos, Nashville, Welcome to L.A., Remember My Name, Noroît, Chaplin, Talk to Her, and more.

Study of hexafunctional polyol in high solids air-drying alkyd: Improved film performance

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Haseebuddin ◽  
Randhir Parmar ◽  
Gulzar Waghoo ◽  
Swapan K. Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
High Solids ◽  
Air Drying ◽  
Film Performance

Poetry in Film: Performance, Identity, and Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-84
Author(s):  
David Whitley
Keyword(s):  
Personal Transformation ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Film Performance ◽  
Institutional Authority ◽  
Development Analysis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This paper will examine the way poetry – and particularly the performance of poetry by adolescent characters – is represented in film. The paper argues that film offers a space within which it is possible to reflect in particularly probing ways on the relationship between poetry’s often contradictory roles in both expressing cultural norms and enabling repressed, neglected or forbidden aspects of individuals’ experience to be articulated. In particular, the performance of poetry by adolescents in films often takes place in dramatized contexts where the exercise of institutional authority is being questioned and individuals are undergoing difficult forms of personal transformation, awakening or development. Analysis and comparison of some exemplary instances in which the performance of poetry plays a central role in such struggles reveals much about the continued potency of poetic forms in an era when mainstream poetry itself has come to be widely perceived as either marginal or irrelevant to most ordinary people’s lives.

Monsters, Synch: A Taxonomy of the Star Voice

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-164
Author(s):  
Christopher Holliday
Keyword(s):  
Film Performance ◽  
Structural Importance ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Character Design ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Sound Technology ◽  
Film Sound

This chapter proposes that the ascription of star speech (as a dynamic sound form) to the computer-animated film’s puppet performers contributes to the effect and impact of their many screen performances. This chapter takes the star voice to be a unique instrument of performance that lies at the cornerstone of computer-animated film acting, and begins by implicating the potency of the star voice within wider industrial discourses. These include local dubbing practices, sound technology, and the multiplication of star sound across a range of consumer and multi-media products. The formal and structural importance of the star voice to computer-animated film performance is illustrated through the work of prominent film sound theorist Michel Chion and his work on synchresis, a neologism produced out of the combination of “synchronism” and “synthesis”. By extending Chion’s account, this chapter uses descriptors derived from synchresis to outline three prominent synchretic unions operating at the level of character design. A significant innovation here is the development of a taxonomy of the star voice as it is inscribed formally into computer-animated films—anthropomorphic, autobiographic and acousmatic synchresis—which give new precision to the analysis of star voices in animation.

Actors, Non-professional Actors, Starlets, and Stars

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Pitassio
Keyword(s):  
Film History ◽  
Film Performance ◽  
Popular Theatre ◽  
Andre Bazin ◽  
The Relationship

Film critics and film history celebrate neorealism for its use of nonprofessional performers in a number of masterpieces. However, as lucid observers such as André Bazin pointed out in the late 1940s, neorealist films relied on a mixture of professional and non-professional actors. This chapter describes the debate on film performance and its origins from the mid-1930s to the early 1950s and looks at how the use of non-professional performers was associated with neorealism’s aim to present a non-narrative cinematic representation. Moreover, the chapter examines the relationship between neorealism, non-professional performers, and phenomena such as popular theatre and new female stardom. The chapter ends with a case study of the most renowned neorealist actress, Anna Magnani.

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