Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation

by Andrew Klevan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904764243
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/11/2005
Series:	Short Cuts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Interpreting Performance
1. Position and Perspective
2. Place
3. Plot
A Final Word
Notes
Bibliography
Index