| Description |
viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
In focus--Routledge film readers
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In focus--Routledge film readers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Remarks on the Actor / Siegried Kracauer -- Reflections on the Ontology of Film / Stanley Cavell -- Screen Acting and the Commutation Test / John O. Thompson -- The Changing Status of the Actor / Charles Musser -- The Histrionic and Verisimilar Codes in the Biograph Films / Roberta Pearson -- Pictorial Styles and Film Acting / Ben Brewster and Lea Jacobs -- Crafting Film Performances: Acting in the Hollywood Studio Era / Cynthia Baron -- Lillian Gish in True Heart Susie (1919) / James Naremore -- "A High-Class Job of Carpentry": Toward a Typography of Early Sound Comedy / Henry Jenkins -- Masculinity in Crisis: Method Acting in Hollywood / Virginia Wright Wexman -- Film Acting and Independent Cinema / Andrew Higson -- Typecasting / Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- The 1950s: Black Stars / Donald Bogle -- In Praise of Character Actors / Rudolf Arnheim -- The Lives of Supporting Players / David Thomson -- Supporting Character: The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead / Patricia White. |
| Subject |
Motion picture acting.
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Motion picture acting. |
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Motion picture actors and actresses.
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Motion picture actors and actresses. |
| Added Author |
Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964-
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| ISBN |
0415310245 |
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9780415310246 |
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0415310253 paperback £13.99 |
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9780415310253 paperback |
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