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Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation

By Andrew Klevan

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780231503549
DOI
10.7312/klev6424
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9297280 bytes)
Pages
\124
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 20:35:48

Description

Performers make a crucial contribution to the achievement of narrative films. By moving through exemplary sequences, this book closely follows the movement and behaviour of screen performers – Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Widmark – and by emphasising their relationship to other aspects of film style – camera, location and plot – it develops accounts that are specific and involved. This study concentrates on films from the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood and moment-by-moment descriptions enable fresh interpretations to emerge and evolve. These reveal the significance and intensity of a performer’s engagement with the world of a film.

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