Imagining the Method, Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
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Imagining the Method traces the primordial conditions under which the Method was conceived.
It explores John Garfield's tenuous relationship with methodness due to his identity.
It considers the links between John Wayne's reliance on 'anti-Method' stardom and Marlon Brando and James Dean's ascribed embodiment of Method features.
It dissects contemporary emphases on transformation and considers the implications of methodness in the encoding of AI performers.
Altogether, Justin Rawlins offers a revisionist history of the Method that shines a light on the cultural politics of methodness and the still-dominant assumptions about race, gender, and screen actors and acting that inform how we talk about performance and performers.
It explores John Garfield's tenuous relationship with methodness due to his identity.
It considers the links between John Wayne's reliance on 'anti-Method' stardom and Marlon Brando and James Dean's ascribed embodiment of Method features.
It dissects contemporary emphases on transformation and considers the implications of methodness in the encoding of AI performers.
Altogether, Justin Rawlins offers a revisionist history of the Method that shines a light on the cultural politics of methodness and the still-dominant assumptions about race, gender, and screen actors and acting that inform how we talk about performance and performers.
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Mentioned as the book authored by Justin Owen Rollins and published by the University of Texas Press in 2024.
Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
