Acting in British Television
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 9y7z6
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137470201
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This peer-reviewed, co-authored book is the second published output from Hogg and Cantrell’s collaborative research project examining television acting, launched with £6000 funding from The Humanities Research Centre, University of York, in 2011. Expanding upon the approaches initially proposed in their earlier journal article in Critical Television Studies (also submitted), this book covers a broader range of television genres and actor perspectives, offering the first in-depth investigation of acting processes in contemporary British television. Utilising sixteen new in-depth interviews with prominent British actors, the book examines how actors build characters for television, how they work on set and location, and how they create their critically-acclaimed screen performances.
The book brings together the co-authors’ respective expertise in television studies and actor training to facilitate an interdisciplinary exploration of acting for television. As the first study to adopt such a sustained actor-centred strategy in investigating creative processes for acting for television, Hogg and Cantrell made the decision to articulate the research findings through a mapping of patterns of thought and approaches, rather than through imposition of externally derived concepts. This mode of investigation is intended to provide a foundation upon which future research in this area could build, and informed their subsequent co-edited book, Exploring Television Acting (Bloomsbury, 2018). Consequently, a unique contribution of the co-authored book is the foregrounding of both acting processes and the specific production contexts of television as essential for understanding television acting.
Hogg and Cantrell’s actor-centred and dialogic approach delivers new insights into television acting, particularly through analysing creative processes as opposed to textual end-products. In a review of the book published in Critical Television Studies, prominent film and television studies scholar Professor Geraghty notes how ‘Cantrell and Hogg’s analysis looks at the hidden labour of actors and challenges [dominant textual analysis] approaches.’
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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