Gordon Peffer wrote: >I'm trying to find some material on TV acting styles. The sources I've >looked at so far, Berg & Wenner, Allen, Newcombe, Ellis, have little >or nothing on acting at all. The only thing I've seen is the section >in this list moderator's text, _Building Narrative: Character, Actor, >Star_. Have I missed something? Why is there such a paucity of >material on TV acting? lthough there is stuff on the star system You might give a look at David Thorburn's article "television melodrama" in any of the recent a editii ons of Newcomb's TV: The Critical View. He's becoming a cranky defender of aesthetic /textual approaches ( (protests a bit too much?), but he really conveys a sense for the essential qualities of "TV Acting" Also a recent article of his in Critical Studies in Mass Communication where he analyzes Lonesome Dove, using the acting as one the key factors (at least that's what I remember he does). Jim Wehmeyer Wehm,eyer [log in to unmask]