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 and involved. This study concentrates on films from the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood and moment-by-moment descriptions enable fresh interpretations to emerge and evolve. These reveal the significance and intensity of a performer’s engagement with the world of a film.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Interpreting Performance
1. Position and Perspective
2. Place
3. Plot
A Final Word
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Andrew Klevan is a lecturer at the University of Kent in Canterbury. His previous books include
Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film.
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