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Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 10 Mar 2024 00:24:11
Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance

Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance"
English | ISBN: 1477328505 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 17 MB

A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.

Only one performance style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: “Method acting.” The first reception-based analysis of film acting, Imagining the Method investigates how popular understandings of the so-called Method—what its author Justin Rawlins calls "methodness"—created an exclusive brand for white, male actors while associating such actors with rebellion and marginalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book maps the forces giving shape to methodness and policing its boundaries.
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