Kairschner, Shawn Travis, «Staging visibilities: Stanislavsky’s system, photography, and epistemologies of the body, 1870–1938». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 2007 Abstract This dissertation locates turn of the century acting techniques within a set of diagnostic discourses that strive to convert the body’s visible surfaces into legible signs of invisible psychic interiority. To facilitate the reading of somatic surfaces, these discourses deployed photographic imaging technologies capable of rendering the surface of the body transparent. I argue that the period’s foremost theater artists, notably Andre Antoine and Konstantin Stanislavsky, applied “photographic” diagnostics to their rehearsal processes and acting systems. These figures developed hermeneutic strategies that enabled actors, during rehearsals, to extrapolate…