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