{"product_id":"imagining-the-method-reception-identity-and-american-screen-performance-hardback-9781477328507","title":"Imagining the Method; Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance (Hardback) 9781477328507","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImagining the Method\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReception, Identity, and American Screen Performance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJustin Owen Rawlins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477328507, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 27 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e2.8 x 16.2 x 3 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMethod acting is analyzed with startling insight in \u003ci\u003eImagining the Method\u003c\/i\u003e. Rawlins shares the history of the acting style, and looks closely at its most notable proponents. The chapter on Dustin Hoffman and Tootsie is a marvel.\u003c\/div\u003e (The Film Stage) \u003cdiv\u003eRawlins’s extensive research ensures that the book offers new insights to all readers...Rawlins’s sustained inquiries into the interpretive landscape, together with his analyses of documents that reveal the gendered and racial hierarchies naturalized in commentaries about Method actors’ rebelliousness and vulnerability, make \u003ci\u003eImagining the Method\u003c\/i\u003e a significant contribution to work on screen performance, cinema and media studies, and American cultural history.\u003c\/div\u003e (Screen)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Only one performance style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: “Method acting.” The first reception-based analysis of film acting, \u003ci\u003eImagining the Method\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how popular understandings of the so-called Method-what its author Justin Rawlins calls \"methodness\"-created an exclusive brand for white, male actors while associating such actors with rebellion and marginalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book maps the forces giving shape to methodness and policing its boundaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagining the Method\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. What We Talk about When We Talk about the Method \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Methodists and Method-ists: Primordial Ideas of Methodness \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Acting a Foil: John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and the Othering of Methodness \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. James Dean’\u003cbr\u003es Story: Posthumous Reception and Methodness Memorialized \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. History in Hysteria: John Garfield and the Limits of Methodness \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. Illogical Tomatoes to Inscrutable Feats: Methodness to the Present \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion. Facing a Future Methodness \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Selected Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52694721069336,"sku":"9781477328507","price":37.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imagining-the-method-reception-identity-and-american-screen-performance-hardback-9781477328507","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}