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Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances Volume 2: International

Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens

Abstract

This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history, asking in many different and complementary ways what makes performance meaningful, how it reflects a director's style, as well as how it contributes to the development of national cinemas and cultures. Whether noting the precise ways actors shape film narrative, achieve emotional effect, or move toward political subversion, the essays in these books innovate new approaches to studying screen performance as an art form and cultural force. This second volume ... More

Keywords: Performance, Acting, Screen Acting, Cinema History, Film Studies, Celebrity, Film Theory, Stardom, Authorship Studies

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2018 Print ISBN-13: 9781474417037
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2020 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417037.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Murray Pomerance, editor

Kyle Stevens, editor
Appalachian State University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

Epigraph

Close-up: great international performances

Kyle Stevens and Murray Pomerance

Chapter 1 Victor Sjöström in Wild Strawberries

Homer B. Pettey

Chapter 2 Emil Jannings in The Blue Angel

Jerry Mosher

Chapter 3 Charles Laughton in Hobson’s Choice

Marcia Landy

Chapter 4 Nikolai Cherkasov in Ivan the Terrible

Karla Oeler

Chapter 5 Peter Lorre in M

Janet Bergstrom

Chapter 6 Anna Magnani in The Golden Coach

Sergio Rigoletto

Chapter 7 Alec Guinness in Last Holiday

R. Barton Palmer

Chapter 8 Ingrid Bergman in Stromboli

Victoria Duckett

Chapter 9 Toshirô Mifune in Throne of Blood

Douglas McFarland

Chapter 10 Setsuko Hara in Tokyo Story

David Desser

Chapter 11 Marcello Mastroianni in 8½

Adrienne L. McLean

Chapter 12 Jeanne Moreau in The Bride Wore Black

Adrian Danks

Chapter 13 Michel Serrault in La cage aux folles

Kyle Stevens

Chapter 14 Madhubala in Mughal-e-Azam

Corey K. Creekmur

Chapter 15 Michael Caine in Alfie

Jason Jacobs

Chapter 16 Amitabh Bachchan in Deewaar

Ulka Anjaria

Chapter 17 Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Alexia Kannas

Chapter 18 Jean-Pierre Léaud in Stolen Kisses

Aaron Taylor

Chapter 19 Isabelle Huppert in The Piano Teacher

Alison Taylor

Chapter 20 Emma Thompson in The Remains of the Day

Timotheus Vermeulen

Chapter 21 Tilda Swinton in I Am Love

Murray Pomerance

Chapter 22 Denis Lavant in Holy Motors

Nick Davis

Chapter 23 Choi Min-sik in Oldboy

Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient

Chapter 24 Maggie Cheung in In the Mood for Love

Gina Marchetti

Chapter 25 Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde in Mortal Inheritance

Noah Tsika

Chapter 26 Gael García Bernal in The Motorcycle Diaries

Dolores Tierney

End Matter

The cast

The contributors

Index