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Performers Playing Themselves

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2016

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Crippen, Matthew

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An 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 rĂ´les. 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.

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Acting, Aesthetics, Art, History of, Bazin, Andre, Cavell, Stanley, Filmmaking, Directing, Kracauer, Siegfried, Language, Philosophy of, Metaphysics, Ontology, Performing, Philosophy of Film, Photography, Realism, Santayana, George, Transparency, Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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