Film Performance - From Achievement to Appreciation

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-904764-24-3
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 199 mm, Gewicht: 212 g

Reihe: Short Cuts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klevan, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Interpreting Performance
1. Position and Perspective
2. Place
3. Plot
A Final Word
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Klevan is a lecturer at the University of Kent in Canterbury. His previous books include Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film.