Tag: performance
SEXY VAMPIRES: A SPECTACLE/PERFORMANCE PARADIGM by Max Sexton
In 1983, the Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature was already noting Gothic’s altered eroticism...
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CfP: conference “Music 625: The Performance of Music on Television, c.1955-’85”. June 8-9, 2018 @ School of Music, University of Leeds (UK). Deadline: Feb 28, 2018.
Music 625: The Performance of Music on Television, c.1955-’85 Call for papers A Conference at the...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: ALEC BALDWIN IN 30 ROCK (PART II) by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Having previously considered the ways in which Alec Baldwin has his character Jack Donaghy run...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: ALEC BALDWIN IN 30 ROCK (PART I) by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
For his portrayal of Jack Donaghy, GE Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: ADAM DRIVER IN GIRLS by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Graduating from the Juilliard School as recently as 2009, Adam Driver is currently experiencing a...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: BENEDICT WONG IN MARCO POLO by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Actors of East Asian descent have traditionally not received much screen time in Anglophone...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: MERRITT WEVER IN NURSE JACKIE by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
In our last blog post, we examined the acting by a female performer in a strong ensemble cast –...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: JENNIFER ANISTON IN FRIENDS by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
So far in our blog strand, we have been looking at moments of performance that are quite...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: CHARLES DANCE IN GAME OF THRONES by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
‘You Win or You Die’, the seventh episode from the first season of Game of Thrones (HBO,...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: ROBERT LINDSAY IN G.B.H. by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
As Robert Lindsay notes in his autobiography Letting Go, by the late 1980s, things weren’t looking...
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