Acts : theater, philosophy, and the performing self / Tzachi Zamir.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Life on the stage. What actors do -- Kinds of existential amplification -- The experience of amplification -- Watching actors -- Listening to actors -- Staging fictions. Staging words -- Staging literature -- Staging objects -- Between life and stage. Unethical acts -- Pornography and acting -- Life as stage. The theatricalization of love -- The theatricalization of death -- Conclusion.

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Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the first philosophical study devoted to acting, Acts sheds light on some of the more evasive aspects of the acting experience - such as the import of the actor's voice, the ethical unease sometimes felt while embodying particular sequences, and the meaning of inspriration. Tzachi Zamir explores acting's relationship to everyday role-playing through a surprising range of examples of "lived acting," including pornography, masochism, and eating disorders. By unearthing the deeper mobilizing structures that underlie dissimilar forms of staged and non-staged role-playing, Acts offers a multilayered meditation on the percolation from acting to life. -- from back cover.

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