Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films - Couverture rigide

Pearson, Roberta

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520073657 ISBN 13 : 9780520073654

Editeur : University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

Between 1908 and 1913, D.W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulation of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book explores a critical period in the history of film acting: the emergence of the realistic "verisimilar" style in Griffith's biograph films. Roberta Pearson demonstrates how Griffith gradually abandoned the deliberately affected "histrionic" acting style derived from the 19th-century stage. No longer did actors mime distress by raising their arms to heaven or clutching their heads - a subtle facial expression, a slight change in posture would convey a character's extreme emotions instead. Pearson makes detailed comparisons of certain biograph films and closely examines contemporary journalistic writing, acting manuals and the recollections of actors of the time.

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À propos de l?auteur

Roberta E. Pearson is Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is co-editor of The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media (1991) and co-author of a forthcoming book dealing with the cultural and social contexts of the Vitagraph Studio's high-art moving pictures.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520073657
• ISBN 13: 9780520073654
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
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