Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying (Paperback)

Acknowledgments
1. Learning How to Cry
2. On the Nature of Tears: A Semi-Fictional Dialogue
3. I’m Too Sad to Tell You: On the Private Language of Tears
I. Bas Jan Ader’s I’m Too Sad to Tell You
II. Wu Tsang’s The Shape of a Right Statement
III. Ann Buchanan’s Girl Who Cries a Tear 4. Learning How to Cry (Again): Or, How Actors Keep Feeling the Past
I. Crying Men (Crying Actors)
II. The Paradox of the (Weeping) Actor
III. Bullying the Actor (the Actor Bullying) 5. The Weeper’s Toolbox: An Incomplete Catalog of Prosthetics, Props, and Prompts
I. Prosthetics
II. Props
III. Prompts
6. On Getting Water from a Stone: Or, Do Androids Weep Electric Tears?
I. Hol(e)y Statues
II. The Drowned Puppet
III. Robots in the Rain
7. Teaching How to Cry
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