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Celebrity and the Semiotics of Acting
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In this article, Quinn suggests that a semiotic approach to the acting sign can help to distinguish the function of celebrity in acting, the threats to authority that celebrity imposes, and the results of celebrity acting both on stage and in the efforts of the actor to achieve an identity.Abstract:
One of the persistent problems in acting, and one that seems to grow steadily in importance, comes from the public identity of the actor. This study suggests that a semiotic approach to the acting sign can help to distinguish the function of celebrity in acting, the threats to authority that celebrity imposes, and the results of celebrity acting both on stage and in the efforts of the actor to achieve an identity. This essay is related to earlier discussions of the stage figure by its author, Michael Quinn, in Modem Drama and Gestus . applying the Prague School model of analysis that also supported his article on reading and directing in NTQ11 (1987). Michael Quinn, an assistant professor at the University of Washington, is currently working on a critical study of Vaclav Havel, as well as a longer study of the stage figure in different theatrical contexts.read more
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Interplay: The Method and Potential of a Cognitive Scientific Approach to Theatre
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The actor's bodies
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Invisible Presences—Performance Intertextuality
TL;DR: The analysis of theatrical performance has always provided a problem of particular difficulty to semiotic theory, for a variety of reasons such as the ephemerality of the event, the complexity of the interrelationships of so many communicative channels, the almost infinite variety of physical realizations that may be generated from a single written script, the phenomenological concerns generated by the physical presence of an event, and the effects upon interpretation of changing historical and social reception strategies as mentioned in this paper.
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