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Call No: 227.01(73) CLO
Place: UK
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2018
Series: International film stars
Subject: 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 GOOGBYE, 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: 9781474417006
Contents: 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.

Call No: 81HAW WIL
Author: Willis, Donald C.
Place: Metuchen, NJ
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
PubDate: 1975
PhysDes: viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject: HAWKS, HOWARD; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940); I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (US, Howard Hawks, 1949); MONKEY BUSINESS (US, Howard Hawks, 1952); TWENTIETH CENTURY (US, Howard Hawks, 1934); BALL OF FIRE (US, Howard Hawks, 1942); SONG IS BORN, A (US, Howard Hawks, 1947); FIG LEAVES (US, Howard Hawks, 1926); MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT? (US, Howard Hawks, 1963); RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948); RIO BRAVO (US, Howard Hawks, 1959); RIO LOBO (US, Howard Hawks, 1970); EL DORADO (US, Howard Hawks, 1966); BIG SKY, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1952); BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946); ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (US, Howard Hawks, 1939); CEILING ZERO (US, Howard Hawks, 1936); CROWD ROARS, THE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); GIRL IN EVERY PORT, A (US, Howard Hawks, 1928); TIGER SHARK (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); BARBARY COAST (US, Howard Hawks, 1935); COME AND GET IT (US, Howard Hawks and William Wyler, 1936); SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953); CRIMINAL CODE, THE (US, Howard Hawks, 1931); LAND OF THE PHARAOHS (US, Howard Hawks, 1955); TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (US, Howard Hawks, 1944); AIR FORCE (US, Howard Hawks, 1943); SARGEANT YORK (US, Howard Hawks, 1941); ROAD TO GLORY, THE (US, Howard Hawks, 1936)
Summary: The films of Howard Hawks are organised by genre and reviewed to give a sense of the director as auteur.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0810808609

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Article
Subject: HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940)
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Call No: 67(04) FAR
Author: Farber, Manny
Place: New York
Publisher: Hillstone
PhysDes: viii, 288 p., [18] of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subject: ACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; FESTIVALS. NEW YORK; UNDERGROUND FILMS; AGEE, JAMES; ALDRICH, ROBERT; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BOGARDE, DIRK; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRESSON, ROBERT; BUNUEL, LUIS; BURTON, RICHARD; DENEUVE, CATHERINE; FONDA, HENRY; FORD, JOHN; FULLER, SAMUEL; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HAWKS, HOWARD; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; HUSTON, JOHN; KAZAN, ELIA; MANN, ANTHONY; MOREAU, JEANNE; SIEGEL, DON; SNOW, MICHAEL; STEVENS, GEORGE; STURGES, PRESTON; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH; ASPHALT JUNGLE, THE (US, John Huston, 1950); BELLE DE JOUR (FR/IT, Luis Bunuel, 1967); BIG CLOCK, THE (US, John Farrow, 1947); BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946); BODY SNATCHER, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1945); CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE, THE (US, Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise, 1944); DETECTIVE STORY (US, William Wyler, 1951); FLAMING STAR (US, Don Siegel, 1960); HIGH SIERRA (US, Raoul Walsh, 1941); HIS KIND OF WOMAN (US, John Farrow, 1951); HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940); KILLERS, THE (US, Robert Siodmak, 1946); ODD MAN OUT (UK, Carol Reed, 1947); LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948); PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (US, Samuel Fuller, 1953); PROWLER, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950); RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948); ROARING TWENTIES, THE (US, Raoul Walsh, 1939); SCAR OF SHAME, THE (US, Frank Peregini, 1927); SET-UP (US, Kathryn Bigelow, 1978); SKAMMEN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1968); SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942); SUNSET BOULEVARD (US, Billy Wilder, 1950); THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949)
Notes: Includes index.; Orginally published as: Negative space

Call No: 732(73) HAR
Author: Harvey, James, 1929
Edition: 1st ed
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Knopf
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xii, 716 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTORS; COMEDIES; DIRECTORS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HOLLYWOOD; 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 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 index
ISBN: 0394503392
LON: 5273661