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This book offers a critical account of film performances by nonprofessional actors. Nonprofessional actors — actors without previous acting training or experience — have performed in films since the days of the Lumière brothers. Generally associated with currents such as Early Soviet Cinema, Italian Neorealism and New Argentine Cinema, nonprofessional actors also feature prominently in the works of celebrated directors including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Robert Bresson and Joanna Hogg. Since the turn of the century and the rise of digital filmmaking, the performances of nonprofessional actors have remained a staple of independent cinemas from all over the world, including films associated with the loose trend often referred to as Slow Cinema. Despite their enduring presence in acclaimed and widely discussed films, nonprofessional actors have received scant scholarly attention. This book proposes to analyse exemplary nonprofessional performances from across the history of cinema as a means of illuminating their significance and celebrating the performers’ contributions to the films.

Motion pictures. --- Motion picture acting. --- Close Readings in Film and TV. --- Screen Performance. --- Film acting --- Moving-picture acting --- Acting --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism

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Through close readings of poems covering the span of Georg Trakl's lyric output, this study traces the evolution of his strangely mild and beautiful vision of the end of days.

Trakl, Georg, --- Trakël, Georg, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Trakl, Georg --- Trakël, Georg --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Gentle Apocalypse. --- Georg Trakl. --- Meaning. --- Poetry. --- Truth. --- affective dimensions. --- apocalyptic vision. --- biographical context. --- close readings. --- cosmological dimensions. --- cultural context. --- ethical dimensions. --- historical dimensions. --- intimate poetry. --- rustic imagery. --- social dimensions. --- twentieth-century poetry. --- universal disintegration. --- worldview.

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The cinephobic novelist who complains to Fitzgerald's tycoon that he will never get the hang of scriptwriting wouldn't give a nickel for the movies. Yet never before the appearance of film had human perception been engaged in such an all-encompassing way by a single art form. In this ambitious investigation of a little-studied narrative genre, Gavriel Moses defines and explores "the film novel," a literary text in which cinema provides the thematic, formal, psychological, and philosophical center. Through close readings of works by the major representatives of the genre--Pirandello, Nabokov, Isherwood, West, Fitzgerald, Moravia, Percy, Puig--Moses develops a suggestive theory of novels that use literature to investigate the central role that film has acquired in human experience. These novels, because of their fascination with filmmaker and spectator alike, and because they anticipate current views of the questions of cinema, remain a tangible presence within the repertoire of literary modernism. Offering insightful discussions of Laughter in the Dark, Lancelot, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and other film novels, Moses shows the depth of the exchange between literature and cinema and illustrates the extent to which the way we tell stories with words has been affected by the movies. His book will be of wide interest to literary scholars, film historians, and students of cinema and the novel.

Fiction --- Motion pictures in literature. --- History and criticism. --- ambitious investigation. --- art forms. --- audiences. --- cinema. --- close readings. --- film history. --- film makers. --- film novels. --- film studies. --- film. --- hollywood. --- human perception. --- insightful discussions. --- literary criticism. --- literary modernism. --- literary scholars. --- literary text. --- literary theory. --- movie lovers. --- movie making. --- narrative genre. --- philosophical center. --- philosophy. --- psychology. --- scriptwriting. --- semiotics theory. --- storytelling. --- television. --- tv.

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The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods—including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others—and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies. At a time when many aspects of current methods show a desire to adopt values from other disciplines to solve internal crises, this volume advocates a renewed focus on questions of form by means of the praxis of aesthetic study, close reading, and other modes of engaging directly with literary texts.

Criticism --- History. --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Digital humanities. --- Motion pictures. --- Literary Theory. --- Literature and Technology. --- Digital Humanities. --- Close Readings in Film and TV. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Humanities --- Literature and mass media --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism --- Theory