Film Performance From Achievement to Appreciation (Paperback)

Paperback. 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. "Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation" looks closely at the art and style of male and female performance in film. Relating performance to other filmic aspects, such as editing and camera movement and how to appreciate closely specific moments and scenes in films. Andrew Klevan provides a broad study of the art and how it has developed while analyzing performance styles from 'The Golden Age of Hollywood' (pre-1960). Stars profiled include Katherine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. Films studied include "City Lights" (1931), "The Awful Truth" (1937), "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) and "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…