Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation

by Andrew Klevan

Performers make a crucial contribution to the achievement of narrative films. By moving through exemplary sequences, this book closely follows the movement and behaviour of screen performers - Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Widmark - and by emphasising their relationship to other aspects of film style - camera, location and plot - it develops accounts that are specific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190476424X
• ISBN13: 9781904764243
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher