The actor’s face: from the photogenic expression to the external reflection

Authors

  • Pedro Maciel Guimaraes Universidade Estadual de Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-3867.v16i2p220-232

Keywords:

Film actors, Aesthetics and history of cinema, Film analysis.

Abstract

The uses and theories around the composition in the foreground, which puts emphasis on the actor’s face: the idea of photogenic and visible emotion from Louis Delluc and Jean Epstein; Lev Kulechov and Mikhail Iampolski’s mask face and machine face, linked to the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s; Jacques Aumont’s proposition to analyze the close-up of actresses of the classic and modern cinema, divided into “soul face” and “screen face”.

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Author Biography

  • Pedro Maciel Guimaraes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
    Professor do Departamento de Cinema do Instituto de Artes da Unicamp

References

AUMONT, Jacques. Du visage au cinema. Paris : Cahiers du Cinéma, 1992.

DANEY, Serge. Que peut un cœur ?. In: Cahiers du Cinéma n, 330, p. 36-39, dez. 1981.

COURTINE, J.-J.; HAROCHE C. Histoire du Visage (1988). Paris : Ed. Payot et Rivages, 2007.

DELEUZE, G.; GUATTARI, F. Mille Plateaux. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1989.

EPSTEIN Jean. Magnification and other writings. In: October 3, primavera 1977.

IAMPOLSKI Mikhail. Visage-masque et visage-machine. In: ALBERA, F. (Org.). Vers une théorie de l’acteur. Lausanne: L’Age d’Homme, 1994. p. 35-40.

Published

2016-12-21

Issue

Section

SALA ABERTA

How to Cite

Guimaraes, P. M. (2016). The actor’s face: from the photogenic expression to the external reflection. Sala Preta, 16(2), 220-232. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-3867.v16i2p220-232