Movie Acting: The Film Reader Book

	Acknowledgments
	General Introduction
Pt. 1	Ontology of the Film Actor	15
1	Remarks on the Actor	19
2	Reflections on the Ontology of Film	29
3	Screen Acting and the Commutation Test	37
Pt. 2	The Creation of the Film Actor	49
4	The Changing Status of the Actor	51
5	The Histrionic and Verisimilar Codes in the Biograph Films	59
6	Pictorial Styles and Film Acting	69
7	Crafting Film Performances: Acting in the Hollywood Studio Era	83
Pt. 3	Style and Technique	95
8	Lillian Gish in True Heart Susie (1919)	99
9	"A High-Class Job of Carpentry": Toward a Typography of Early Sound Comedy	111
10	Masculinity in Crisis: Method Acting in Hollywood	127
11	Film Acting and Independent Cinema	145
Pt. 4	Character and Type	165
12	Typecasting	169
13	The 1950s: Black Stars	191
14	In Praise of Character Actors	205
15	The Lives of Supporting Players	207
16	Supporting Character: The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead	211
	Select Bibliography	227
	Index	233