Child Performance Dossier Introduction
Child Performance Dossier Introduction
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儿童表现档案简介
作者：
Lawrence M
这份档案的起源在于2011年9月在桑德兰大学举行的一次关于儿童演员和童星的会议。1我们决定组织这次会议是因为这样一种感觉，尽管最近有关电影研究中的表演和表演的关键奖学金有所增加，但这个孩子得到的关注相对较少。詹姆斯·纳雷莫尔的《电影中的表演》（1988年）标志着重新评估银幕表演的开始，在过去的25年里，几部重要而有影响力的作品集从各种批评和理论角度探讨了这一主题，考察了各种表演传统和流派，并专注于特定明星的技巧和风格。[2]然而，到目前为止，关于电影中儿童演员的历史或儿童作为表演者出现在小说电影中所引起的具体问题的学术工作很少。事实上，无论是在传统的星星研究中，还是在最近的银幕表演中，儿童都因其缺席而引人注目。考虑到儿童演员对商业电影的重要性（最明显的是好莱坞明星，如秀兰·邓波儿和麦考利·卡尔金），以及对替代传统的重要性（如从战后意大利到今天的伊朗的现实主义电影中的非专业演员），这种缺席是令人惊讶的。
The origins of this dossier lie in a conference on child actors and child stars that took place at the University of Sunderland in September 2011. 1 Our decision to organize this conference arose from a feeling that, despite the recent increase in critical scholarship concerned with acting and performance in film studies, the child had received relatively little attention. James Naremore’s Acting in the Cinema (1988) marked the beginning of a reevaluation of screen performance, and over the last twenty-five years several important and influential collections have addressed the topic from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, examining various acting traditions and schools, and focusing on the skills and styles of particular stars. 2 There has, however, been very little academic work to date on either the history of child actors in the cinema or the specific issues raised by the child’s presence as a performer in the fiction film. Indeed, the child has generally been conspicuous by its absence both in traditional star studies and in the more recent turn to screen performance. Such an absence is surprising considering the significance of the child actor for commercial cinema (most obviously Hollywood stars such as Shirley Temple and Macaulay Culkin), as well as for alternative traditions (such as the nonprofessional performers in realist cinemas from postwar Italy to present-day Iran).