Communicative Functions of Performer Expressiveness and Their Artistic and Aesthetic Aspects: Analysis of a Scene from Smiles of a Summer Night

Johannes Riis

doi:10.3167/proj.2017.110204

Communicative Functions of Performer Expressiveness and Their Artistic and Aesthetic Aspects: Analysis of a Scene from Smiles of a Summer Night

Bidragets oversatte titel: Kommunikative funktioner af skuespillerens ekspressivitet og deres kunstneriske og æstetiske egenskaber: Analyse af scene fra Sommarnattens leende

Johannes Riis

Institut for Kommunikation

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En diskussion af forskellige emotionsteori, med hver deres fokus, samt en analyse af en scene fra Ingmar Bergmans Sommarnattens leende (1954) med henblik på replikbehandling og spillestil.

Bidragets oversatte titel	Kommunikative funktioner af skuespillerens ekspressivitet og deres kunstneriske og æstetiske egenskaber: Analyse af scene fra Sommarnattens leende
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind
Vol/bind	11
Udgave nummer	2
Sider (fra-til)	49-66
Antal sider	18
ISSN	1934-9688
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3167/proj.2017.110204
Status	Udgivet - 1 dec. 2017

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