Acting in the CinemaIn this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the contemporary features of Robert DeNiro, he develops a useful means of analyzing performance in the age of mechanical reproduction; at the same time, he reveals the ideological implications behind various approaches to acting, and suggests ways that behavior on the screen can be linked to the presentation of self in society. Naremore's discussion of such figures as Lillian Gish, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, and Cary Grant will interest the specialist and the general reader alike, helping to establish standards and methods for future writing about performers and their craft. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictRather than establish the norms and conventions of film acting as the background for his discussion, Naremore focuses his analyses on a group of films that, he argues, self-consciously thrusts ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Protocols | 7 |
What Is Acting? | 19 |
The Actor and the Audience | 25 |
Rhetoric and Expressive Technique | 32 |
Expressive Coherence and Performance within Performance | 66 |
Accessories | 81 |
Costume | 86 |
Marlene Dietrich in Morocco 1930 | 129 |
James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 | 155 |
Katharine Hepburn in Holiday 1938 | 172 |
Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront 1954 | 191 |
Gary Grant in North by North west 1959 | 211 |
Rear Window 1954 | 237 |
The King of Comedy 1983 | 260 |
Selected Bibliography | 285 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Acting in the Cinema Acting in the Cinema, James Naremore Cine y espectaculos |
| Author | James Naremore |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0520910664, 9780520910669 |
| Length | 307 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / Drama Performing Arts / Acting & Auditioning Performing Arts / Film / General |
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