[Commlist] New book: Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance

Justin Rawlins is happy to announce the publication of my book 
/Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen 
Performance 
<https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328507/imagining-the-method/>/ with 
University of Texas Press.

Using a reception-based approach that combines discourse analysis and 
textual analysis with cultural history, /Imagining the Method/ explores 
the interpretive landscape of US popular culture to show how it has 
yielded a discursive construction of Method acting and actors—what I 
call “methodness”—that diverged from historical Method philosophies and 
practices long ago and has in fact eclipsed them in American popular 
culture. I investigate how prevailing understandings of the so-called 
Method created an exclusive brand for white, male actors while 
simultaneously associating such actors with rebellion and 
marginalization. Drawing on extensive archival research from more than a 
dozen repositories, this book offers a revisionist history of the Method 
that shines a light on the cultural politics of methodness and the 
still-dominant assumptions about race, gender, and screen actors and 
acting that inform how we talk about performance and performers. I have 
included several reviews of the book below, as well as a link to the 
introduction UTP has generously made available for free.

You can get 40% off /Imagining the Method /now with code UTXGIFTS.


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