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Acting for the silent screen : Film actors and aspiration between the wars /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,
2017.
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| Colección: | Cinema and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Author Bio; Endorsement; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; General editor's introduction; Introduction: Winifred Hopcroft's story; The 'craze' for film acting; Film acting and the British silent cinema; Participation and self-improvement; Exploiting ambition; 1 In and out of the studio: The silent film actor in Britain; Acting for a living; Actors in the early cinema; Picture personalities and crowd players; Working conditions; Stage and screen: Clive Brook and Brian Aherne; A 'nice' job for girls: Mabel Poulton and Chili Bouchier
- 2 Learn to act for the cinema in your own home: Instructional guides to film actingSilent cinema and participation; How to become a film artiste; Stage experience not essential; Screen types; Speech, gesture and movement; The art of facial expression; An imaginary camera in your sitting room; A cheap course of star study; 3 The common round: Finding film work in interwar London; Waiting rooms; Cinema schools; Girls who haunt Filmland; The most troublesome woman in London; Schools for the screen-struck?; 4 Stand forth, Mary Pickford the second! Searching for British stars
- Fan magazine readers get their chanceNewspaper contests; Cinemagazine beauties; A protégée for Norma Talmadge; Friday night is Amami night; Cinderella of the films: Margaret Leahy; Epilogue: From silence to sound; Notes; Introduction: Winifred Hopcroft's story; 1. In and out of the studio: The silent film actor in Britain; 2. Learn to act for the cinema in your own home: Instructional guides to film acting; 3. The common round: Finding film work in interwar London; 4. Stand forth, Mary Pickford the second! Searching for British stars; Epilogue: From silence to sound; Select filmography