Shots to the Heart: For the Love of Film Performance

Shots to the Heart: For the Love of Film PerformanceThis book continues the authors project, begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love, of exploring the place of film actors in an emotional and thoughtful reception of movies. Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance in viewing cinema.

This volume explores the ideas

critical pedagogy

If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism

weapons trafficking

This anthology contains three plays (Ceremonial Kisses

Japan’s preeminent connoisseur of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints)

Through ethnographically grounded case studies

graphic designers

a book has come along that sorts and chronicles fifty of them

and creates a new framework for understanding its practices

By opening the doors of the house

contesting