Murray Pomerance

Moment of Action

Riddles of Cinematic Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Delves into the mysteries of screen performance, revealing both the acting techniques and the technical apparatuses that coalesce in an instant of cinematic alchemy to create movie gold. Considering a range of acting styles and a variety of films, Murray Pomerance traces the common dynamics that work to structure the complex relationship between the act of cinematic performance and its eventual perception.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780813564951
• ISBN-10: 0813564956
• Artikelnr.: 44218005

Autorenporträt

MURRAY POMERANCE is an independent film scholar in Toronto, Canada. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of many books, including The Eyes Have It , Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s, A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film, and The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory (all published by Rutgers University Press).  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Preamble: Saw the Air             Thinking about actors and their allure
Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause
viewers’ love of acting
momentary performance
acting, action, and activity
acting, evidence, and biography
Linda Darnell
casting and gatekeeping. 1                Fantastic Performance Thinking about acting style and culture
innocent and scientific watching, and “falling in”
The Edge of Tomorrow
The Last Laugh
With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II
predictive performance and John Wayne
transcendent performance and Katharine Hepburn
Bringing Up Baby
Now, Voyager
El Dorado. 2                Beaux Gestes             Thinking about language and gesture
The Disorderly Orderly
Anthony Perkins in Psycho
Jeff Goldblum in Le Weekend
Touch of Evil
the flower of the gest
Ralph Richardson and Christophe Lambert in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
effects gesture
Life of Pi and keyframing
animated performance and puppetry
Blithe Spirit
Robert Walker in My Son John
The Stepford Wives
The Musée Grévin
Jacques de Vaucanson’s duck
The Thief of Bagdad
Charlton Heston and Gary Cooper in The Wreck of the Mary Deare
cinematic gesture and The King of Comedy
The Thin Man
Cool Hand Luke
The Red Shoes
hands and handfulness
actors under direction
John Frankenheimer, Burt Lancaster, and The Train
Antony and Cleopatra
Hitchcock, gesture, and “cattle”
Kim Novak, Vertigo, and vertiginous gesture. 3                Curtains             Thinking about the actor’s multiple selves
Vivian Sobchack and the actor’s four bodies
performance amplification
Alec Guinness and preparation
rehearsal and “downkeying”
curtain calls
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Murder on the Orient Express
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Bad Seed
“behind-the-scenes” musicals
theatrical exhibition spaces
credit-roll “goofing”
Peter O’Toole and Winona Ryder offscreen
Birdman
fans and fan logic
actor-in-the-street stories
acting audiences
the Academy Awards. 4                “It’s Not a Man, It’s a Place!”             Thinking about setting and the actor’s labor
workplaces under capitalism and factory design
the sound stage environment
Rope
acting and make-up
Technicolor
My Dinner with André
Ian Carmichael
Ingrid Bergman and Under Capricorn
The Wizard of Oz
Grey Gardens
Simon Callow and A Room with a View
Charles Laughton in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Boris Karloff
2001: A Space Odyssey
Haruo Nakajima, Godzilla, and body division
Billion Dollar Brain
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Chinatown
Fred Astaire dancing with Ginger Rogers
the sound boom
the “caffeination schedule”
acting, editing, and lighting
predetermined focus
Suddenly, Last Summer
The Hands of Orlac
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
“Instructions for John Howell”
panoptical setting
Laurence Olivier in Sleuth
setting and characters
Bette Davis in The Letter
the character “at home” in Marnie
“hypothetical” performance, Sandra Bullock, and Gravity
Andy Serkis
the actor’s mirror
animation vocalizing
The Member of the Wedding. 5                Acting Intimate             Thinking about actors’ trade secrecy
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Boogie Nights
Anthony Hopkins and Hannibal Lecter
Colin Farrell and truth-telling
Joaquin Phoenix in The Master
zombie performance
George Herbert Mead
Hud
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
onscreen urination and bleeding
Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained
the actor’s voice
acting and musculature
the actor’s touch
interpersonal contact and audience exclusion
The Bourne Identity
anxious interiors
Peter Lorre in Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and Hotel Berlin
Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
the “Doctrine of Natural Expression”
anti-intellectualism, the portrayal of genius, and Jesse Eisenberg
acting the “amnesiac”
forgotten moralities and cathartic awakening. Notes Works Cited and Consulted Index