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Virtuoso : film performance and the actor's magic / Murray Pomerance.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.A26 P66 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pomerance, Murray, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Motion picture acting.
- Motion picture acting--Case studies.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures--History--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 347 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary productions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A brief history of the virtuosic moment
- Showing off
- Effacement and allure
- Money
- "I am acting"
- "I am on show"
- Charisma as commodity
- Outstanding
- Virtuosity superimposed
- Spontaneity
- In dreams awake
- A feminine mystique
- Tortures
- Secret virtuosity
- (In)credible belief
- Touched by the camera
- Improvise
- Breathe
- Director/virtuoso
- Heimlichkeit
- Collapse
- Bigger than life
- The spectacle of things falling apart
- Limping on
- The eternal return
- Borders
- Facing
- Louder louder, softer softer
- Virtuosity classical
- Near misses
- Discounts
- Virtuosic silence
- Virtuosic support
- Control
- Virtuosic play-within-play
- Upstairs downstairs
- Lost in the stars
- Virtuosity pianissimo virtuosity forte
- Virtuosity as event
- Indelibles
- Virtuosity and "the virtuoso"
- Negative virtuosity
- Virtuosic slippage
- The end or "end" of virtuosic performance
- Coda. A thought of conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781501350689
- 1501350684
- 9781501350672
- 1501350676
- OCLC:
- 1077789126
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