Film Performance : : From Achievement to Appreciation / / Andrew Klevan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Klevan, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Short Cuts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION: INTERPRETING PERFORMANCE --; 1. POSITION AND PERSPECTIVE --; 2. PLACE --; 3. PLOT --; A FINAL WORD --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231503549; 9783110651959; 9783110605785; 9783110610017; 9783110610765; 9783110664232
• DOI: 10.7312/klev6424
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Klevan.

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.