Hamlet Lives in Hollywood : : John Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen /

Hamlet Lives in Hollywood : : John Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen / / Murray Pomerance, Steven Rybin.

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Analyses the complexity of John Barrymore's performances and career trajectoryJohn Barrymore’s influence on screen and stage in the early twentieth century is incalculable. His performances in the theatre defined Shakespeare for a generation, and his transition to cinema brought his theatrical...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Pomerance, Murray,
Rybin, Steven,
MitwirkendeR:
Barton Palmer, R.,
Carli, Philip,
Carson, Diane,
Hammond, Michael,
Langford, Barry,
Lennard, Dominic,
McFarland, Douglas,
Pomerance, Murray,
Rothman, William,
Rybin, Steven,
Scheibel, Will,
Shingler, Martin,
Stevens, Kyle,
Toles, George,
Varndell, Daniel,
Williamson, Colin,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 40 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • The Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Pre-Bard Stage Career of John Barrymore
  • 2 Dangerously Modern: Shakespeare, Voice, and the “New Psychology” in John Barrymore’s “Unstable” Characters
  • 3 The Curious Case of Sherlock Holmes
  • 4 John Barrymore’s Introspective Performance in Beau Brummel
  • 5 “Keep Back your Pity”: The Wounded Barrymore of The Sea Beast (1926) and Moby Dick (1930)
  • 6 From Rome to Berlin: Barrymore as Romantic Lover
  • 7 The Power of Stillness: John Barrymore’s Performance in Svengali
  • 8 Prospero Unbound: John Barrymore’s Theatrical Transformations of Cinema Reality
  • 9 A Star is Dead: Barrymore’s Anti-Christian Metaperformance
  • 10 Handling Time: The Passing of Tradition in A Bill of Divorcement
  • 11 John Barrymore’s Sparkling Topaze
  • 12 “Planes, Motors, Schedules”: Night Flight and the Modernity of John Barrymore
  • 13 Barrymore and the Scene of Acting: Gesture, Speech, and the Repression of Cinematic Performance
  • 14 “I Never Thought I Should Sink So Low as to Become an Actor”: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century
  • 15 Barrymore Does Barrymore: The Performing Self Triumphant in The Great Profile
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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