The shooting of a film, especially of a sound film, affords a spectacle unimaginable anywhere at any time before this. It presents a...

The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the...

For the film, what matters primarily is that the actor represents himself to the public before the camera, rather than representing...

The artistic performance of a stage actor is definitely presented to the public by the actor in person; that of the screen actor,...