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Close up : great cinematic performances. Volume 1, American / edited by Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Call No: 227.01(73) CLOPlace: UKPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2018Series: International film starsSubject: ACTORS ; CHARACTER ACTORS ; STARS ; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA ; WATERS, ETHEL ; DUNNE, IRENE ; GRANT, CARY ; GAYNOR, JANET ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; DAVIS, BETTE ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; CURTIS, TONY ; SELLERS, PETER ; Stewart, James ; Lombard, Carole ; MASON, JAMES ; BURTON, RICHARD ; LEWIS, JERRY ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; HACKMAN, GENE ; ROWLANDS, GENA ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; HOFFMAN, DUSTIN ; GOULD, ELLIOTT ; PACINO, AL ; GOLDBERG, WHOOPI ; BLANCHETT, CATE ; ISAAC, OSCAR ; STEWART, KRISTEN ; CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (FR/SZ/GG/US/BE, Olivier Assayas, 2014) ; MOST VIOLENT YEAR, A (US, J. C. Chandor, 2014) ; BLUE JASMINE (US, Woody Allen, 2013) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; DONNIE BRASCO (US, Mike Newell, 1997) ; LONG GOODBYE, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1973) ; RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988) ; PASSENGER, THE (IT/SP/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) ; GLORIA (US, John Cassavetes, 1980) ; CONVERSATION, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) ; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967) ; KING OF COMEDY, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1983) ; SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE (UK, Martin Ritt, 1965) ; PINK PANTHER, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1964) ; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ; PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951) ; LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962) ; TO BE OR NOT TO BE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ; LION IN WINTER, THE (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1968) ; HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940) ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; DANGEROUS (US, Alfred E. Green, 1935) ; SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927) Summary: "Examines the significance of women's participation in popular genres.
Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from world cinema. What actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural visibility of movie stars is so pronounced that stardom has often been regarded as intrinsic to the medium's specificity. Yet not all great cinematic performances are star turns, and so, what really makes a cinematic performance good, interesting, or important has been a neglected topic in film criticism. This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history, asking in many different and complementary ways what makes performance meaningful, how it reflects a director's style, as well as how it contributes to the development of national cinemas and cultures. Whether noting the precise ways actors shape film narrative, achieve emotional effect, or move toward political subversion, the essays in these books innovate new approaches to studying screen performance as an art form and cultural force"--Page 4 of cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781474417006Contents: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Close-up: great American performances -- Chapter 1 Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding -- Chapter 2 Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth -- Chapter 3 Cary Grant in His Girl Friday -- Chapter 4 Janet Gaynor in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans -- Chapter 5 Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter -- Chapter 6 Bette Davis in Dangerous -- Chapter 7 James Stewart in Vertigo -- Chapter 8 Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be -- Chapter 9 James Mason in Lolita -- Chapter 10 Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun -- Chapter 11 Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success.
Chapter 12 Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther -- Chapter 13 Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold -- Chapter 14 Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy -- Chapter 15 Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night -- Chapter 16 Gene Hackman in The Conversation -- Chapter 17 Gena Rowlands in Gloria -- Chapter 18 Jack Nicholson in The Passenger -- Chapter 19 Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man -- Chapter 20 Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye -- Chapter 21 Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco -- Chapter 22 Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple -- Chapter 23 Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine -- Chapter 24 Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year -- Chapter 25 Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria -- Index.ID2: 362
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Filmmakers on filmmaking : the American Film Institute seminars on motion pictures and television. volume 1 / edited by Joseph McBride Los Angeles Boston: J.P. Tarcher Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co., c1983.
Call No: 802 FIL vol.1Author: McBride, Joseph CorpAuthor: American Film InstituteEdition: 1st edPlace: Los Angeles BostonPublisher: J.P. Tarcher Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co.PubDate: c1983PhysDes: ports. ; 24 cmSubject: WALLIS, HAL B. ; ZANUCK, RICHARD ; BROWN, DAVID ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; WILDER, BILLY ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; BALL, LUCILLE ; HOWE, W.J. ; PLATT, POLLY ; BEATTY, WARREN ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; SILVER, JOAN MICKLIN ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; DIAMOND, I. A. L. ; ROSENMAN, LEONARD ; FIELDS, VERNA ; SYLBERT, ANTHEA ; MENGERS, SUE ; EAST OF EDEN (US, Elia Kazan, 1955) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; SHAMPOO (US, Hal Ashby, 1975) ; TARGETS (US, Peter Bogdanovich, 1968) Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexesISBN: 0874772664 (v. 1) : $15.95 (per vol.); 0874772672 (v. 2); 0874772494 (pbk. : v. 1) : $7.95 (per vol.); 0874772508 (pbk. : v. 2)LON: 2606290
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Movie acting, the film reader / edited by Pamela Robertson Wojcik New York: Routledge, 2004.
Call No: 227 WOJPlace: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2004PhysDes: viii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.Series: In focusSubject: ACTING ; ACTORS STUDIO METHOD ; CHARACTER ACTORS ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; GISH, LILLIAN ; TRUE HEART SUSIE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; DEAN, JAMES ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; MOOREHEAD, AGNES ; WATERS, ETHEL ; DANDRIDGE, DOROTHY Summary: A colelction of classic essays and recent scholarly articles about acting. A look at the history of screen acting and types of acting methods with some reference to specific actors and their styles.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 0415310245
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A piece of the action : race and labor in post-civil rights Hollywood / Eithne Quinn New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.
Call No: 744.6(73) QUIAuthor: Quinn, Eithne Edition: 2020Place: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2020PhysDes: x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24cmSubject: RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; BLACK FILMMAKERS. US ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; DAVIS, OSSIE ; VAN PEEBLES, MELVIN ; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967) ; SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) ; SUPER FLY (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1972) ; BLUE COLLAR (US, Paul Schrader, 1978) Summary: Hollywood is often thought of—and certainly by Hollywood itself—as a progressive haven. However, in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the film industry grew deeply conservative when it came to conflicts over racial justice. Amid black self-assertion and white backlash, many of the most heated struggles in film were fought over employment. In A Piece of the Action, Eithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed wider racial politics, through representation on screen as well as in battles over jobs and resources behind the scenes.
Based on extensive archival research and detailed discussions of films like In the Heat of the Night, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Super Fly, Claudine, and Blue Collar, this volume considers how issues of race and labor played out on the screen during the tumultuous early years of affirmative action. Quinn charts how black actors leveraged their performance capital to force meaningful changes to employment and film content. She examines the emergence of Sidney Poitier and other African Americans as A-list stars; the careers of black filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and Ossie Davis; and attempts by the federal government and black advocacy groups to integrate cinema. Quinn also highlights the limits of Hollywood’s liberalism, showing how predominantly white filmmakers, executives, and unions hid the persistence of racism behind feel-good stories and public-relations avowals of tolerance. A rigorous analysis of the deeply rooted patterns of racial exclusion in American cinema, A Piece of the Action sheds light on why conservative and corporate responses to antiracist and labor activism remain pervasive in today’s Hollywood. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231164375
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Call No: PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION; PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILEPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: POITIER, SIDNEY
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This life London: Coronet, April 1981.
Call No: 81POI POIAuthor: Poitier, Sidney, 1927 Place: LondonPublisher: CoronetPubDate: April 1981PhysDes: [448] pSubject: POITIER, SIDNEY Notes: America cinema films. Acting. Poitier, Sydney. - Biographies (BNB/PRECIS); Originally publishedISBN: 0340266732 (pbk) : ª1.50 : CIP entryLON: bnb34026673; 2059735
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Who the hell's in it : portraits and conversations / Peter Bogdanovich London: Faber and Faber Limited, 2004.
Call No: 802.27 BOGAuthor: Bogdanovich, Peter Edition: 2005Place: LondonPublisher: Faber and Faber LimitedPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 528 pages ; illustrated ; 20 cmSubject: ACTING ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; GISH, LILLIAN ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BRANDO, MARLON ; ADLER, STELLA ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; GRANT, CARY ; LEMMON, JACK ; LEWIS, JERRY ; MARTIN, DEAN ; MINEO, SAL ; Stewart, James ; WAYNE, JOHN ; FONDA, HENRY ; KARLOFF, BORIS ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; CAGNEY, JAMES ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; Perkins, Anthony ; SINATRA, FRANK ; GAZARRA, BEN ; HEPBURN, AUDREY ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; PHOENIX, RIVER ; MONROE, MARILYN Summary: From Peter Bogdanovich - director, screenwriter, actor, and cinema scholar - 26 fascinating portraits of Hollywood's most acclaimed movie actors and actresses: stars whom he has known, admired, and occasionally worked with.
Within these pages is Bogdanovich on Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, James Cagney, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, Jack Lemmon, Boris Karloff, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, and many more. With an acute and affectionate eye, Bogdanovich shows us Lillian Gish, the first virginal hearth goddess of the silver screen; Marlon Brando, refusing to play the same from one picture to the next, yet ever recognisable as the great actor, in spite of himself; Jerry Lewis, whose goofy comedy represented the nine-year-old in all of us; and Cary Grant, the epitome of screen elegance, benignly aware that in life even he could never live up to his own legend. Bogdanovich captures brilliantly - in their own words and his - the personality, the work, the style and the enduring iconic appeal of America's movie greats. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780571224319Donation: James Sabine
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Youth rebellion movies / by Marc Perlman Minneapolis: Lerner, c1993.
Call No: 734.8 PERAuthor: Perlman, Marc Place: MinneapolisPublisher: LernerPubDate: c1993PhysDes: 80 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cmSubject: DELINQUENTS IN FILMS ; MOTORCYCLE FILMS ; TEEN FILMS ; BRANDO, MARLON ; DEAN, JAMES ; FONDA, PETER ; FORD, GLENN ; HOPPER, DENNIS ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; WOOD, NATALIE ; BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (US, Richard Brooks, 1955) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; HEATHERS (US, Michael Lehmann, 1989) ; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) ; ROCK'N'ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (US, Allan Arkush. 1979) ; WILD ONE, THE (US, Laslo Benedek, 1953) Summary: Describes the portrayal of teenage rebellion against authority as shown in such films as "The Blackboard Jungle," "Rebel Without a Cause," and "Rock 'N Roll High School."Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 79) and indexISBN: 0822516403ID2: 8
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