David Lazar

Celeste Holm Syndrome

On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Celeste Holm Syndrome is a series of essays about character actors, both the famous and lesser known, from Hollywood’s Golden Age.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9781496200457
• ISBN-10: 1496200454
• Artikelnr.: 59182378

Autorenporträt

David Lazar is a professor at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of several books, including I’ll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphorisms (Nebraska, 2017), Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy? An Essay on Love, and Occasional Desire: Essays (Nebraska, 2013). He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
On Characters: Preston Sturges’s Ensemble
My Two Oscars: On Wit and Melancholy
Celeste Holm Syndrome: The Eyes of Sister Scholastica
Double Take: Jack Carson Agonistes
Comedy and Pain: Eric Blore, with a Side of Franklin Pangborn
Ma: Five Movie Mothers, with a Coda on Hitchcock
My Family Romance: Edward Everett Horton and Jessie Royce Landis
Martin Balsam: The Best Possible Arnold Burns