Vivien Leigh

Actress and icon
Herausgeber: Dorney, Kate; Gale, Maggie B.

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays on the legendary actress that uses archival sources in the US and UK to re-examine her attitude to acting and the public perception of her work. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781526125088
• ISBN-10: 1526125080
• Artikelnr.: 48582351

Autorenporträt

Kate Dorney is Senior Lecturer in Theatre & Performance at the University of Manchester Maggie B. Gale is Professor of Drama at The University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Re
reading Vivien Leigh 1 Vivien Leigh, actress and icon: introduction
Kate Dorney and Maggie B. Gale 2 Public faces/private lives: performing Vivien Leigh
Kate Dorney 3 Making Vivien Leigh mad
Maggie B. Gale Part II: The actress at work 4 An actress prepares
John Stokes 5 Film performance and Vivien Leigh: from starlet to Scarlett, and Blanche Dubois to Mrs Stone
Lucy Bolton 6 Vivien Leigh and her French collaborations: a rethinking of her art
Arnaud Duprat de Montero Part III: Constructed identities 7 From the fans
Kendra Bean 8 Dressing the part: costume and character
Keith Lodwick 9 Leigh through the lens: photographic collaborators
Susanna Brown 10 'A living set': at home with Vivien Leigh
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