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Great Cinematic performances Volume 1: America
Redaktion: Pomerance, Murray; Stevens, Kyle

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Produktbeschreibung

What actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural visibility of movie stars is so pronounced that stardom has often been regarded as intrinsic to the medium's specificity. Yet not all great cinematic performances are star turns, and so, what really makes a cinematic performance good, interesting, or important has been a neglected topic in film criticism. This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history, asking in many different and complementary ways what makes performance meaningful, how it reflects a director's style, as well as how it contributes to the development of national cinemas and cultures. Whether noting the precise ways actors shape film narrative, achieve emotional effect, or move toward political subversion, the essays in these books innovate new approaches to studying screen performance as an art form and cultural force.This volume focuses on American cinema, including case studies of key performances from actors like Bette Davis, Irene Dunne, Whoopi Goldberg, Cary Grant, Oscar Isaac, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sellers, Kristen Stewart, and Ethel Waters, amongst many others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474417020
• Artikelnr.: 72421968

Autorenporträt

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto. He is the author of many books including The Man Who Knew Too Much (BFI, 2016), A King of Infinite Space (Oberon, 2017) and Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance (Rutgers, 2016). Kyle Stevens is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Appalachian State University. He is the author of Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism, and his essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, Critical Quarterly, Film Criticism, World Picture, as well as several edited collections. He is also editor-in-chief of New Review of Film and Television Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Kyle Stevens and Murray Pomerance
1: Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding, Anna Everett
2: Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth, Steven Rybin
3: Cary Grant in His Girl Friday, Adrienne L. McLean
4: Janet Gaynor in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Janet Bergstrom
5: Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter, Homer B. Pettey
6: Bette Davis in Dangerous, Lucy Fischer
7: James Stewart in Vertigo, William Rothman
8: Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be, Alex Clayton
9: James Mason in Lolita, Rebecca Bell-Metereau
10: Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun, George Toles
11: Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success, John Bruns
12: Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther, Daniel Varndell
13: Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, R. Barton Palmer
14: Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy, Murray Pomerance
15: Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night, Frances Gateward
16: Gene Hackman in The Conversation, Brenda Austin-Smith
17: Gena Rowlands in Gloria, David Greven
18: Jack Nicholson in The Passenger [Professione: Reporter], Rick Warner
19: Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Jason Jacobs
20: Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye, Douglas McFarland
21: Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco, Tim Vermeulen
22: Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple, Lester D. Friedman
23: Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine, Shonni Enelow
24: Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year, Charles Ramírez Berg
25: Kristin Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria, Elliott Logan
The Cast
Contributors