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Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic

Autor Professor Murray Pomerance
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2019
Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? What makes these performances so special? Eloquently written and engagingly laid out, Murray Pomerance answers the tough question as to what makes an exceptional, or virtuosic performance. Pomerance intensively explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary production, and gives serious consideration to structural problems of dramatization and production, actorial methods and tricks, and contingencies that befall performers giving stand-out moments.Looking at more than 40 aspects of the virtuosic act, and using an approach based in careful meditation and discursion, Virtuoso moves through such themes as showing off, effacement, self-consciousness, performative collapse, spontaneity, acting as dream, acting and femininity, virtuosity and torture, secrecy, improvisation, virtuosic silence, and others; giving special attention to the labors of such figures as Fred Astaire, Johnny Depp, Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, Christopher Plummer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alice Brady, Ethel Waters, James Mason, and dozens more. Numerous scenic virtuosities are examined in depth, from films as far-ranging as Singin' in the Rain and The Bridge on the River Kwai, and My Man Godfrey. As the first book about virtuosity in film performance, Virtuoso offers exciting new angles from which to view film both classical and contemporary.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501350689
ISBN-10: 1501350684
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 44 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Author is known as "the inimitable lyric poet of cinema scholars" and "one of the most compelling writers on cinema in the contemporary field"

Notă biografică

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto, Canada. He is the editor of the "Techniques of the Moving Image" series and the Horizons of Cinema series, and co-editor, with Lester D. Friedman and Adrienne L. McLean respectively, of the Screen Decades and Star Decades series. Pomerance has written, edited and co-edited several books, including Cinema, If You Please (2018), Moment of Action (2016), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013), The Horse who Drank the Sky: Film Experience beyond Narrative and Theory (2008), and two BFI Classics on Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016).

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsOvertureChapter 1: A Brief History of the Virtuosic MomentChapter 2: Showing OffChapter 3: Effacement and AllureChapter 4: MoneyChapter 5: "I Am Acting"Chapter 6: "I Am On Show"Chapter 7: Charisma as CommodityChapter 8: OutstandingChapter 9: Virtuosity SuperimposedChapter 10: SpontaneityChapter 11: In Dreams AwakeChapter 12: A Feminine MystiqueChapter 13: TorturesChapter 14: Secret VirtuosityChapter 15: (In)Credible BeliefChapter 16: Touched by the CameraChapter 17: ImproviseChapter 18: BreatheChapter 19: Director/VirtuosoChapter 20: HeimlichkeitChapter 21: CollapseChapter 22: Bigger Than LifeChapter 23: The Spectacle of Things Falling ApartChapter 24: Limping OnChapter 25: The Eternal ReturnChapter 26: BordersChapter 27: FacingChapter 28: Louder Louder, Softer SofterChapter 29: Virtuosity ClassicalChapter 30: Near MissesChapter 31: DiscountsChapter 32: Virtuosic SilenceChapter 33: Virtuosic SupportChapter 34: ControlChapter 35: Virtuosic Play-Within-PlayChapter 36: Upstairs DownstairsChapter 37: Lost in the StarsChapter 38: Virtuosity Pianissimo Virtuosity ForteChapter 39: Virtuosity as EventChapter 40: IndeliblesChapter 41: Virtuosity and "The Virtuoso"Chapter 42: Negative VirtuosityChapter 43: Virtuosic SlippageChapter 44: The End or "End" of Virtuosic PerformanceCoda: A Thought of ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

In 44 epigrammatic chapters, Pomerance examines the work of literally hundreds of screen actors, capturing the essence of their performances in isolated gestures, speech patterns, facial expressions, and other bits of cinematic legerdemain . The depth, range, and scope of this volume is stunning, as is the precision with which Pomerance unpacks these moments from more than a thousand films, shedding new light on the actor's craft. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
An interesting and compelling read throughout . the book is a joy to read from start to finish, whether one knows the performances being discussed or not, and makes a wonderful addition to the growing body of scholarly writings on performance and star studies.
In this extraordinary volume, Murray Pomerance acts as something like a spirit guide to the mysteries of cinematic performance. The text conjures a pageant of gestures, voices, faces and moments that exemplify virtuosity, accompanied by critical reflection that is never less than compelling. Pomerance's prose is itself virtuosic: lucid, penetrating, brilliant. It asks questions we didn't know could be asked, and never resorts to easy answers. This makes the book essential reading, not just for scholars and students of film performance, but for anyone interested in the art and magic of the cinema.
From detailed examinations of such singular talents like James Dean and Cary Grant, to the subtler, fleeting, performative moments by virtuosos as varied as John Barrymore and Kristen Stewart, Murray Pomerance offers a new way of approaching, as well as a language for addressing, the riddling qualities of great film acting. What magic the actors explored in this book do with gesture, expression and inflexion, Pomerance does here with incisive description, analysis, and an often delightful turn of phrase.