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:	9780231503549
Publisher:	WallFlower Press
Publication date:	06/11/2019
Series:	Short Cuts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	24 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

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