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