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...a contribution to the neglected area of serious study of film acting... recommended... --CHOICE

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Author:   Carole Zucker ,  Carole Zucker
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
Imprint:   Scarecrow Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 21.90cm
Weight:   0.662kg
ISBN:  

9780810822207

ISBN 10:   0810822202
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   01 January 1991
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Preface Part 2 I Chapter 3 1. Roberta E. Pearson: ""O'er Step not the Modesty of Nature"": A Semiotic Approach to Acting in the Griffith Biographs Chapter 4 2. William Rothman: Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera Chapter 5 3. Jerome Delamter: Ritual, Realism and Abstraction: Performance in the Musical Chapter 6 4. Thomas Waugh:""Acting to Play Oneself"": Notes on Perfomrance in Documentary Chapter 7 5. Bart Testa: Un Certain Regard: Characterization in the First Years of the French New Wave Chapter 8 6. Lucy Fischer: The Lives of Performers: The Actress as Signifier in Cinema Part 9 II Chapter 10 7. Marian Keane: The Great Profile: How Do We Know the Actor from the Acting? Chapter 11 8. Noel Carroll: Keaton: film Acting as Action Chapter 12 9. Sylvie Gendron, translated by Anne Golden with Carole Zucker: Actor and Text: La Grande Illusion Chapter 13 10. Carole Zucker: ""I Am Dietrich and Dietrich is Me""; An Investigation of Performance Style in Moroccoe and Shaghai Express Chapter 14 11. Johanne Larue and Carole Zucker: James Dean The Post of Reality? East of Eden and the Method Performance Chapter 15 12. Mario Falsetto: The Mad and the Beautiful: A Look at Two Performances in the Films of Stanley Kubrick Chapter 16 13. Doug Tomlinson: Performance in the Films of Robert Bresson: The Aesthetics of Denial Chapter 17 14. Angela Dalle Vacche: Representation, Spectacle, Performance in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist Part 18 Notes on Contributors Part 19 Index"

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...a contribution to the neglected area of serious study of film acting... recommended... CHOICE

...a contribution to the neglected area of serious study of film acting... recommended... Choice

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