Actor-network theory

While I have been a When Calls the Heart fan from Day One, I sometimes lose track of the actors who were a part of the cast in seasons one and two. Thankfully, I am connected with a superb network of Hearties who keep me abreast of such things, and recently, that is exactly what happened. Katelyn Meger, the actress who is fondly remembered as Rachel from When Calls the Heart, has matured into a lovely, young lady whose star is quickly on the ascent. Not too long ago, I had the supreme honor of…

“Animated characters have interacted with live actors before...but, even in “Mary Poppins,” animation was used as a gimmick. No one ever risked creating a movie which is breathtakingly complicated technically but can succeed artistically only if an animated drawing and a live man form a human bond.” Previous hybrid films had worked for the cartoons, the accommodated for them, letting the camera remain in place and having the living actors fit into a cartoon like lighting . Their interactions…

Benjamin writes that the question of whether photography is an art is “misguided and confused.” He states that asking whether photography is art or not is the wrong question to ask because it is not whether photography is art or not, the question that should be asked is “what does photography do to/for art?”. I will discuss the concepts and ideas Benjamin uses to portray his point of what is at stake and significant regarding photography, focusing on technological reproducibility, aura, and…

Learning about the organizational development and culture of an organization has been very interesting. Before coming to college, I decided that I wanted to become and I/O Psychologist, but never knew where I would start. I never knew that Organizational Development was offered as a course here at the University. Once I found out, I had to enroll. Enrolling in this course has taught me a lot and made all the difference. Learning about the organizational structure and culture of an organization…

What is acting? What does it mean to be an actor? As Sanford Meisner stated, “acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.” Luckily for actors, theatre is something that can be enjoyed by just about everyone, just about everywhere. According to the Occupation Outlook Handbook between 2014 and 2024 the projected percent change in employment of actors is 10%. Which is faster than the average for all other professions which sits at 7%. Numerically this means that approximately…

The ensemble was the first Asian-American theatre in San Diego. The ensemble provided Asian-American actors with major roles unavailable to them at the time in mainstream shows. Lowe even said that the students who came to see the show would comment that some actors looked like them. Every year since its incorporation, the company has produced at least one production in pursuit of their mission. Challenges in working with school audiences…

“What career to choose when there are so many things that interest me?” I would always ask myself this since I wanted to do and be everything. I became very indecisive because of all the potential there was. I figured I had to be a little more realistic, so I decided to choose my top three careers and then go from there. My top three career choices are to be a teacher, an actress, and a cinematographer. Becoming a teacher has always been something I’ve kept in mind for a career choice because…

order, respectively. There was also a blind musician—the sole witness to everyone’s circumstances, ironic as it may sound, seated at the bench of the waiting shed. He had a guitar by his lap, and was silently strumming it; though, at times when the actors would signal for a key or a note, he was more than willing to play. Beauty Regina is beautiful, and she knows it. Unapologetically proud of her assets and talents, this girl was not afraid to show-off what she has got. Calling her an airhead…

and the public persona of the actor, especially since these distinct and overlapping identities are both exposed and concealed at different moments throughout the film (Shingler, 121). For Edgar Morin (27), “The star is incarnated in the characters of his or her films but also transcends them. Moreover, these characters transcend the star” (Shingler, 124). With that being said, Morin believes that “the star cannot appear when this reciprocal interpretation of actor and hero fails to occur, for…

Halloween is a great opportunity to make anything believable, because the world becomes a stage, and everyone has a chance to become their favorite superhero or character. Halloween is awesome because it's a time of year when people can drop their judgmental attitudes and accept one another as they are. A case in point is a Halloween dance party just like the famous Star Wars "scene in a bar" where Chewy and Han Solo find creatures and aliens of all different species laughing and drinking and…