Exploring Television Acting

Dr Tom Cantrell is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York, UK. He has published on modern British drama on stage and screen, documentary theatre and acting processes. Dr Christopher Hogg is Senior Lecturer in Television Theory at the University of Westminster, UK. He has published on a wide range of topics, including work on British television drama, television acting and international television format adaptation.

• Exploring Television Acting: An IntroductionTom Cantrell and Christopher Hogg Television Acting: Histories and Inheritances1 Performing Sherlock: A Study in Studio and Location RealismRichard Hewett2 ‘Visible’ and ‘Invisible’ Performance: Framing Performance in 1970s TelevisionDouglas McNaughton3 ‘No-nonsense Rozzer’: Philip Glenister/Gene Hunt, Life on Mars and the Particularity of Television ActingStephen LaceyTelevision Acting: Approaches and Perspectives 4 ‘The Organic and the Technical’: a Psychophysical Approach to Television ActingTom Cantrell5 Viola Davis: A Context for Her Craft and Success in Series TelevisionCynthia Baron6 ‘I’m going in there GC style’: Performance and Performative Contracts within a Crossover of Reality Television EnvironmentsLouise Cope7 Truth and ‘Truthiness’ in Acting the RealDerek PagetTelevision Acting: Training and Industry 8 Exploring Actor Training for TelevisionTrevor Rawlins9 Accent on Talent: The Valorization of British Actors on American Quality TelevisionChristine Becker10 Exploring the Casting of British and Irish Actors in Contemporary US Television and FilmSimone Knox11 Well-being and the Television Actor: Challenges and Coping StrategiesChristopher Hogg and Charlotte Lucy Smith

A refreshing contribution to an overlooked area of scholarship and offers an authoritative new approach to exploring television acting … This book provides an invigorating, and much needed, deviation from the academic tradition of prioritising direction and editing when analysing screen acting.