Crippen, Matthew2020-04-142020-04-142016https://hdl.handle.net/10315/37181https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayw044An enquiry by Matthew Crippen into how we encounter actors as we perceive them by means of a movies, having encountered them within other movies beforehand. After discussing how we use photographs, he concludes that we cannot help but register the actors as actors as we encounter them enacting rôles. Echoing what filmmakers have said and done and adding to classic accounts of Cavell, Santayana and others, he concludes that the very nature of movies well-nigh invites performers to play themselves.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 CanadaThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in The British Journal of Aesthetics following peer review. The version of record The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2016, Pages 163–177, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayw044.ActingAestheticsArt, History ofBazin, AndreCavell, StanleyFilmmakingDirectingKracauer, SiegfriedLanguage, Philosophy ofMetaphysicsOntologyPerformingPhilosophy of FilmPhotographyRealismSantayana, GeorgeTransparencyWittgenstein, LudwigPresentation