Show people : a history of the film star / Michael Newton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Motion picture actors and actresses--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Reaktion Books, 2019.

Summary:

Show People offers a comprehensive history of the idea of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, and Asia. Renowned film writer Michael Newton explores our enduring love affair with fame, glamour, and the cinematic image. Newton builds up an expansive picture of movie stardom through explorations of striking and diverse figures such as Ingrid Bergman and John Wayne, Anna Karina and Sidney Poitier, Maggie Cheung, and Raj Kapoor. He celebrates the great performers of the past, and he looks forward to developments in the future, while also illuminating the inner workings of the movie industry and what moves us in a film and in an actor's performance.An encyclopedic, illustrated history of film idols ready for their close-ups, Show People is ultimately a book about cinephilia, the love of cinema, and our complex connection to that celebrated and beleaguered figure, the movie star.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Imprint Page

Contents

Preface

PART ONE: THE SILENT STAR

1: Mary Pickford: The Biograph Girl

2: Pola Negri: Inventing the Star

3: Charlie Chaplin: The Tramp

PART TWO: THE GOLDEN AGE

4: 'Asta' and 'Cheeta': The Animal Star

5: Peter Lorre: Character Actor

6: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly: A Star Danced

7: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant: The Public Image

8: Vivien Leigh: Ruinous Selves

9: Veronica Lake: Half-obscured Faces

10: Carole Lombard: The Screwball Heroine

11: Greer Garson and Joan Fontaine: The Forgotten Star

12: Orson Welles: The Film Star as Fragment and Failure

13: Ingrid Bergman: Intermezzo

PART THREE: NATIONAL CINEMAS - STARS FOR THE NATION

14: Lamberto Maggiorani and Maria Pia Casilio: Absent Film Stars in Vittorio De Sica's Films

15: Moira Shearer: The Marionette

16: Gloria Swanson: Having a Face

17: Ava Gardner: I Am Not an Actress

18: Montgomery Clift: He's Not There

19: Setsuko Hara: The Still Point

20: Toshiro Mifune: Studying Lions

21: Nargis and Raj Kapoor: My Heart Is Hindustani

22: Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni: Nothing Is Sadder than Laughter

23: John Wayne: How to Grow Old

24: Audrey Hepburn: Frankenstein's Creature

25: Marilyn Monroe: The Suffering Star

26: Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner: Imitation of Life

PART FOUR: NEW WAVE STARS

27: Janet Leigh and Tippi Hedren: Torturing the Audience

28: Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant: The Strange Death of the Hollywood Golden Age

29: Anna Karina: The Muse

30: Celia Johnson and Julie Christie: The Adulterous Star

31: Sidney Poitier: The Defiant One

32: Dustin Hoffman: Little Big Man

33: Woody Allen: The Director as Star

34: Robert De Niro: For Real

PART FIVE: POSTHUMAN STARS.

35: Harrison Ford: Blade Runner and the Replication of the Person

36: Maggie Cheung: Centre Stage

37: Naomi Watts: Mulholland Drive

38: Scarlett Johansson: A New Kind of Emptiness

39: Shu Qi: A Placeless Heaven

40: Andy Serkis: Lear's Shadow

Afterword

References

Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789141849

1789141842