Close-Up : : Great Cinematic Performances Volume 1: America /

Close-Up : : Great Cinematic Performances Volume 1: America / / Kyle Stevens, Murray Pomerance.

Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from American filmThis 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 per...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Pomerance, Murray,
Stevens, Kyle,
MitwirkendeR:
Austin-Smith, Brenda,
Barton Palmer, R.,
Bell-Metereau, Rebecca,
Bergstrom, Janet,
Bruns, John,
Clayton, Alex,
Enelow, Shonni,
Everett, Anna,
Fischer, Lucy,
Friedman, Lester D.,
Gateward, Frances,
Greven, David,
Jacobs, Jason,
Logan, Elliott,
McFarland, Douglas,
McLean, Adrienne L.,
Pettey, Homer B.,
Pomerance, Murray,
Ramírez Berg, Charles,
Rothman, William,
Rybin, Steven,
Stevens, Kyle,
Toles, George,
Varndell, Daniel,
Vermeulen, Timotheus,
Warner, Rick,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:International Film Stars : IFS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Close-up: great American performances
  • 1 Ethel Waters in Th e Member of the Wedding
  • 2 Irene Dunne in Th e Awful Truth
  • 3 Cary Grant in His Girl Friday
  • 4 Janet Gaynor in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • 5 Katharine Hepburn in Th e Lion in Winter
  • 6 Bett e Davis in Dangerous
  • 7 James Stewart in Vertigo
  • 8 Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be
  • 9 James Mason in Lolita
  • 10 Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun
  • 11 Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success
  • 12 Peter Sellers in Th e Pink Panther
  • 13 Richard Burton in Th e Spy Who Came in fr om the Cold
  • 14 Jerry Lewis in Th e King of Comedy
  • 15 Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night
  • 16 Gene Hackman in Th e Conversation
  • 17 Gena Rowlands in Gloria
  • 18 Jack Nicholson in Th e Passenger
  • 19 Dustin Hoff man in Rain Man
  • 20 Elliott Gould in Th e Long Goodbye
  • 21 Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco
  • 22 Whoopi Goldberg in Th e Color Purple
  • 23 Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine
  • 24 Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year
  • 25 Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria
  • The cast
  • The contributors
  • Index

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