Rybin Gestures of Love

Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6553-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rybin, Steven

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prelude: Little Bursting Bubbles
Introduction: The Actor's Heartbeat Part I: Screwball Love

1. Love's Final Irony: John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth Century

2. Wicked Jaws, Lanky Brunettes: Myrna Loy and William Powell in The Thin Man and Libeled Lady

3. "You Look So Silly": Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Sylvia Scarlett, Holiday, Bringing Up Baby, and
The Philadelphia Story

Part II: Noir Amour

4. Love's Possession: Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in Laura

5. Wooing Bogie, Courting Bacall: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and Key Largo

Part III: Love and Melodrama

6. Lipstick on a Teacup: Performance in Vincente Minnelli's The Cobweb and Tea and Sympathy

7. Hudson, Bacall, Stack, Malone: Love and Gesture in Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind Coda: Modern Love

Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Rybin is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is the author of Michael Mann: Crime Auteur and Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film; the editor of The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism; and the coeditor, with Will Scheibel, of Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema, also published by SUNY Press.