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Author Rourke, Chris.

Title Acting for the silent screen : Film actors and aspiration between the wars / Chris O'Rourke.

Publication Info. London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cinema and society series
Cinema and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Author Bio; Endorsement; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; General editor's introduction; Introduction: Winifred Hopcroft's story; The 'craze' for film acting; Film acting and the British silent cinema; Participation and self-improvement; Exploiting ambition; 1 In and out of the studio: The silent film actor in Britain; Acting for a living; Actors in the early cinema; Picture personalities and crowd players; Working conditions; Stage and screen: Clive Brook and Brian Aherne; A 'nice' job for girls: Mabel Poulton and Chili Bouchier
2 Learn to act for the cinema in your own home: Instructional guides to film actingSilent cinema and participation; How to become a film artiste; Stage experience not essential; Screen types; Speech, gesture and movement; The art of facial expression; An imaginary camera in your sitting room; A cheap course of star study; 3 The common round: Finding film work in interwar London; Waiting rooms; Cinema schools; Girls who haunt Filmland; The most troublesome woman in London; Schools for the screen-struck?; 4 Stand forth, Mary Pickford the second! Searching for British stars
Fan magazine readers get their chanceNewspaper contests; Cinemagazine beauties; A protégée for Norma Talmadge; Friday night is Amami night; Cinderella of the films: Margaret Leahy; Epilogue: From silence to sound; Notes; Introduction: Winifred Hopcroft's story; 1. In and out of the studio: The silent film actor in Britain; 2. Learn to act for the cinema in your own home: Instructional guides to film acting; 3. The common round: Finding film work in interwar London; 4. Stand forth, Mary Pickford the second! Searching for British stars; Epilogue: From silence to sound; Select filmography
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Subject Silent films.
Silent films.
Acting.
Acting.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rourke, Chris. Acting for the silent screen. Film actors and aspiration between the wars. London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. 2016 9781784532796 (OCoLC)949770850
ISBN 9781786720597 (electronic book)
1786720590 (electronic book)
9781784532796
1784532797