In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the contemporary features of Robert DeNiro, he develops a useful means of analyzing performance in the age of mechanical reproduction; at the same time, he reveals the ideological implications behind various approaches to acting, and suggests ways that behavior on the screen can be linked to the presentation of self in society.
Naremore's discussion of such figures as Lillian Gish, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, and Cary Grant will interest the specialist and the general reader alike, helping to establish standards and methods for future writing about performers and their craft.
- ISBN10 0520062280
- ISBN13 9780520062283
- Publish Date 29 June 1988 (first published 30 May 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 October 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 316
- Language English