Robert De Niro at Work: From Screenplay to Screen Performance (Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting)

Ganz, Adam; Price, Steven

ISBN 10: 3030479595 / ISBN 13: 9783030479596

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

About this Item

pp. 295.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Robert De Niro at Work: From Screenplay to Screen Performance (Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030479595
• ISBN 13: 9783030479596
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Robert De Niro at Work is the first critical study to examine how Robert de Niro, perhaps the finest screen actor of his generation, works with screenplays to imagine, prepare and denote his performance. In categorising the various ways in which De Niro works with a screenplay, this book will re-examine the relationship between actor and text. This book considers the screenplay as above all a working document and a material object, present at every stage of the filmmaking process. The working screenplay goes through various iterations in development and exists in many versions on set, each adapted and personalised for the specific use of the individual and their role. As the archive reveals, nobody works more closely with the script than the actor, and no actor works more on a script than De Niro.

                

About the Author

Adam Ganz is Professor in the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Steven Price is Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Film at Bangor University. He is the author of The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism and A History of the Screenplay, and former editor of the Journal of Screenwriting.