Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation By Andrew Klevan

Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation looks closely at the art and style of male and female performance in film. Relating performance to other filmic aspects, such as editing and camera movement and how to appreciate closely specific moments and scenes in films. Andrew Klevan provides a broad study of the art and how it has developed while analyzing performance styles from 'The Golden Age of Hollywood' (pre-1960). Stars profiled include Katherine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. Films studied include City Lights (1931), The Awful Truth (1937), The Philadelphia Story (1940) and Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation

A superb study on how film performance works along with the narrational and stylistic choices of a specific film. Paperback

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