Description
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.
Author: Andrew Klevan
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 05/11/2005
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.86h x 6.04w x 0.35d
ISBN13: 9781904764243
ISBN10: 190476424X
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Performing Arts | Acting & Auditioning
Author: Andrew Klevan
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 05/11/2005
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.86h x 6.04w x 0.35d
ISBN13: 9781904764243
ISBN10: 190476424X
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Performing Arts | Acting & Auditioning
About the Author
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.