Gestures of love : romancing performance in classical Hollywood cinema /

Gestures of Love" considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven Rybin examines several of cinema's most beloved on...

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Үндсэн зохиолч: Rybin, Steven, 1979- (Зохиогч)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
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Хэвлэсэн: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Цуврал:SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
Онлайн хандалт:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1525460
Агуулга:
  • Introduction: The actor's heartbeat
  • Part one: Screwball love
  • Love's final irony: John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth century
  • Wicked jaws, lanky brunettes: Myrna Loy and William Powell in The thin man and Libeled lady
  • "You look so silly": Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Sylvia Scarlett, Holiday, Bringing up baby, and The Philadelphia story
  • Part two: noir amour
  • Love's possession: Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in Laura
  • Wooing bogie, courting Bacall: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To have and have not, The big sleep, Dark passage, and Key Largo
  • Part three: Love and melodrama
  • Lipstick on a teacup: performance in Vincente Minnelli's The cobweb and Tea and sympathy
  • Hudson, Bacall, Stack, Malone: love and gesture in Douglas Sirk's Written on the wind
  • Coda: Modern love.