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Gestures of love : romancing performance in classical Hollywood cinema /
Gestures of Love" considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven Rybin examines several of cinema's most beloved on...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The actor's heartbeat
- Part one: Screwball love
- Love's final irony: John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth century
- Wicked jaws, lanky brunettes: Myrna Loy and William Powell in The thin man and Libeled lady
- "You look so silly": Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Sylvia Scarlett, Holiday, Bringing up baby, and The Philadelphia story
- Part two: noir amour
- Love's possession: Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in Laura
- Wooing bogie, courting Bacall: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To have and have not, The big sleep, Dark passage, and Key Largo
- Part three: Love and melodrama
- Lipstick on a teacup: performance in Vincente Minnelli's The cobweb and Tea and sympathy
- Hudson, Bacall, Stack, Malone: love and gesture in Douglas Sirk's Written on the wind
- Coda: Modern love.