The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7405-6 (ISBN)
Why do people go to see movies? Some say that it’s for the story or the genre or the suggested theme, and some say that it’s for the director, but this is often wishful thinking. Nearly everyone goes to the movies to see the stars, the actors, to see the people in them. And during the classic Hollywood period, running roughly from the late 1920s to the early 1950s, there was an explosion of distinctive talent, of stars like James Cagney, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and so many more.
Dan Callahan celebrates and analyzes many of the so-called “pre-Brando” actors of the classic Hollywood period and makes a case for their more heightened but just as valid style. Often dismissed as old-fashioned, these players deserve this new look and new reckoning that places them as icons of creativity and pleasure before more naturalistic Method actors of the 1950s like Brando and James Dean took over.
Dan Callahan has written about film for Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Nylon, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Table of Contents
Introduction: “Pre-Brando” and Bernhardt and Duse
Lillian Gish: Blossom in the Wind
Gloria Swanson: Still Big
John Barrymore: Sweet Prince of Irony
Louise Brooks: Naked on Her Goat
Greta Garbo: Mademoiselle Hamlet
Marlene Dietrich: Illusions
Bette Davis: The Hard Way
Katharine Hepburn: Sadly Happy
Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face
Ingrid Bergman: You Must Change Your Life
James Cagney: Hard to Handle
Cary Grant: Just a Butterfly
Charles Laughton: Leaning and Birthing
Clark Gable: The King
Spencer Tracy: Still Waters
Humphrey Bogart: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Marlon Brando: Before and After
Montgomery Clift: Fallen Aristocrat
Kim Stanley: Private Moments
James Dean: Cause and Effect
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.06.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 28 photographs |
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 319 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4766-7405-1 / 1476674051 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-7405-6 / 9781476674056 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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