Acts : theater, philosophy, and the performing self /

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Author / Creator:	Zamir, Tzachi, 1967- author.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Theater: theory/text/performance Theater--theory/text/performance.
Subject:	Acting -- Philosophy. Acting. Acting. Acting -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12681194

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ISBN:	9780472120291 0472120298 9781306881265 1306881269 9780472072132 0472072137 9780472052134 0472052136
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the first philosophical study devoted to acting, Acts sheds light on some of the more evasive aspects of the acting experience - such as the import of the actor's voice, the ethical unease sometimes felt while embodying particular sequences, and the meaning of inspriration. Tzachi Zamir explores acting's relationship to everyday role-playing through a surprising range of examples of "lived acting," including pornography, masochism, and eating disorders. By unearthing the deeper mobilizing structures that underlie dissimilar forms of staged and non-staged role-playing, Acts offers a multilayered meditation on the percolation from acting to life. -- from back cover.
Other form:	Print version: Zamir, Tzachi, 1967- Acts 9780472072132
Standard no.:	10.3998/mpub.6610419

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