More than Fifteen Minutes of Fame

The Changing Face of Screen Performance

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by Ken Miller

Type

Essays

Subject

Technique > Acting

Keywords

actor, representation, sociology

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

Peter Lang

Collection

Film Cultures

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 311 pages
6 x 8 ¾ inches (15 x 22 cm)

ISBN

978-3-0343-1219-6

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Book Presentation:
More than Fifteen Minutes of Fame tracks screen performance’s trajectory from dominant discourses of realism and authenticity towards increasingly acute degrees of self-referentiality and self-reflexivity. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between changing forms of onscreen representation and our shifting status as social subjects, the book provides an original perspective through international examples from cinema, experimental production, documentary, television, and the burgeoning landscape of online screen performance. In an emerging culture of participatory media, the creation of a screen-based presence for our own performances of identity has become a currency through which we validate ourselves as subjects of the contemporary, hyper-mediatized world. In this post-dramatic, post-Warhol climate, the author’s contention is that we are becoming increasingly wedded to screen media – not just as consumers but as producers and performers.

About the Author:
Ken Miller lectures in film, television and screen arts at Curtin University in Western Australia. He has a background in film and television directing and producing, and his research interests include performances across a range of media.

See the publisher website: Peter Lang