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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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From reverence to rape : the treatment of women in the movies / Molly Haskell Harmondsworth Eng. Baltimore: Penguin, 1974.
Call No: 451-02 HASAuthor: Haskell, Molly Place: Harmondsworth Eng. BaltimorePublisher: PenguinPubDate: 1974PhysDes: xiv, 388 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cmSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; ASTOR, MARY ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; BOW, CLARA ; Crawford, Joan ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; DAY, DORIS ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HOLLIDAY, JUDY ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; MONROE, MARILYN ; RUSSELL, ROSALIND ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; WILDER, BILLY ; DUNNE, IRENE ; WOMEN, THE (US, George Cukor, 1939) ; BEYOND THE FOREST (US, King Vidor, 1949) ; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948) ; DESIGN FOR LIVING (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1933) ; ADAM'S RIB (US, George Cukor, 1949) ; ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0140039465 : ª0.95 ($3.95 U.S.)LON: 74194670; 352052
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Movie star : a look at the women who made Hollywood / by Ethan Mordden New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Call No: 451-02 MORAuthor: Mordden, Ethan, 1947 Place: New YorkPublisher: St. Martin's PressPubDate: 1983PhysDes: xii, 296 p., [40] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cmSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; STAR SYSTEM ; ACTORS ; BOW, CLARA ; SWANSON, GLORIA ; PICKFORD, MARY ; GISH, LILLIAN ; GAYNOR, JANET ; SHEARER, NORMA ; GARBO, GRETA ; Crawford, Joan ; LOY, MYRNA ; GARSON, GREER ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; HARLOW, JEAN ; WEST, MAE ; Lombard, Carole ; DAVIES, MARION ; BALL, LUCILLE ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; RUSSELL, ROSALIND ; FAYE, ALICE ; Stanwyck, Barbara ; DAVIS, BETTE ; TEMPLE, SHIRLEY ; GARLAND, JUDY ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; HAYWORTH, RITA ; GRABLE, BETTY ; GARDNER, AVA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; MANSFIELD, JAYNE ; NOVAK, KIM ; HOLLIDAY, JUDY ; HEPBURN, AUDREY ; DAY, DORIS ; ANDREWS, JULIE ; STREISAND, BARBRA ; MINNELLI, LIZA ; BERGMAN, INGRID ; WELCH, RAQUEL ; Keaton, Diane ; FONDA, JANE ; DRESSLER, MARIE ; DUNNE, IRENE ; LAWRENCE, FLORENCE ; BARA, THEDA ; MURRAY, MAE ; MOORE, COLLEEN ; ALLEN, GRACIE ; BLONDELL, JOAN ; TOMLIN, LILY Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [285]-289ISBN: 0312550502 (pbk.); 0312550499LON: 83003024; 2457302
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People will talk / by John Kobal [London]: Aurum Press, 1986.
Call No: 802 (047.53) KOBAuthor: Kobal, John Source: UKPlace: [London]Publisher: Aurum PressPubDate: 1986PhysDes: xvii, 728 p. : ports. ; 25 cmSubject: STARS ; BACLANOVA, OLGA ; BANKHEAD, TALLULAH ; BERGMAN, INGRID ; BLONDELL, JOAN ; BRENT, EVELYN ; BROOKS, LOUISE ; MCCREA, JOEL ; COBURN, BOB ; COLE, JACK ; Crawford, Joan ; DUNNE, IRENE ; DUPREZ, JUNE ; ENGSTEAD, JOAN ; FONTAINE, JOAN ; FREED, ARTHUR ; GISH, DOROTHY ; GODOWSKY, DAGMAR ; HATHAWAY, HENRY ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HOPKINS, MIRIAM ; HORN, CAMILLA ; HURRELL, GEROGE ; LOOS, ANITA ; LOUIS, JEAN ; LINDSAY, LOIS ; LACEY, MADISON ; Lupino, Ida ; MARSHALL, MELBA ; MILESTONE, LEWIS ; MOORE, COLLEEN ; PAN, HERMES ; YOUNG, LORETTA ; POWELL, ELEANOR ; SHERIDAN, ANN ; SHERMAN, VINCENT ; STANLEY, KIM ; Stanwyck, Barbara ; STEN., ANNA ; WEST, MAE ; WILLINGER, LASZLO Summary: Interviews with past Hollywood starsNotes: Includes indexISBN: 0394536606
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Romantic comedy in Hollywood : from Lubitsch to Sturges / James Harvey New York: Knopf, 1987.
Call No: 732(73) HARAuthor: Harvey, James, 1929 Edition: 1st edSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: KnopfPubDate: 1987PhysDes: xii, 716 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: ACTORS ; COMEDIES ; DIRECTORS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; ROMANTIC COMEDY ; ROMANTIC FILMS. USA ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; STAR SYSTEM ; ARTHUR, JEAN ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; BRACKEN, EDDIE ; CAGNEY, JAMES ; CAPRA, FRANK ; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE ; COOPER, GARY ; DUNNE, IRENE ; GABLE, CLARK ; GRANT, CARY ; HARLOW, JEAN ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; LA CAVA, GREGORY ; Lombard, Carole ; LOY, MYRNA ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; MCCAREY, LEO ; MCCREA, JOEL ; POWELL, WILLIAM ; ROGERS, GINGER ; Stanwyck, Barbara ; STEVENS, GEORGE ; STURGES, PRESTON ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; [FIFTH] 5TH AVENUE GIRL (US, Gregory La Cava, 1939) ; HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929) ; NINOTCHKA (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) ; PALM BEACH STORY, THE (US, Preston Sturgess, 1942) ; SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940) ; TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) ; UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (US, Preston Sturges, 1948) Summary: "Reading ROMANTIC COMEDY is like going to the movies. It recreates for us movies we've come to love: movies the way they were when, in 1934, four in particular - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, TWENTIETH CENTURE, THE THIN MAN, and THE GAY DIVORCEE - heralded the arrival of the golden age of Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Over the next ten years, some of Hollywood's brightest directors and stars turned out some of America's most enduring and beloved films. The screwballs - slangy, irreverent, playful, skeptical, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love" - constitute a genre of American film unique in its combination of the innocent and the worldly, of swank and slapstick. Now critic James Harvey - writing with brilliance and humor - gives us the first truly comprehensive book about these movies and the people who made them." [Taken from book jacket]Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0394503392LON: 5273661
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Showboat : the story of a classic American musical / Miles Kreuger New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Call No: 751.1 KREAuthor: Kreuger, Miles Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1977PhysDes: x, 246 p. : ill. ; 29 cmSubject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSICALS. USA ; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA ; BALLARD, LUCIEN ; BROWN, JOE E. ; DUNNE, IRENE ; FERBER, ENDA ; GARDNER, AVA ; HAMMERSTEIN, OSCAR, II ; KERN, JEROME ; LA PLANTE, LAURA ; ROBESON, PAUL ; RODGERS, RICHARD ; ZIEGFELD, FLORENZ ; TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (US, Richard Whorf, 1946) ; SHOWBOAT (US, Harry A. Pollard, 1929) ; SHOWBOAT (US, George Sidney, 1951) Notes: Discography: p. 236-239
Includes indexISBN: 0195022750Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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