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Autore |
Pomerance Murray |
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Titolo |
Hamlet lives in Hollywood : John Barrymore and the acting tradition onscreen / / edited by Murray Pomerance and Steven Rybin [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017 |
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1-4744-3187-9 |
1-4744-3844-X |
1-4744-1141-X |
1-4744-1140-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Actors - United States |
Biography |
United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Pre-Bard Stage Career of John Barrymore -- 2 Dangerously Modern: Shakespeare, Voice, and the "New Psychology" in John Barrymore's "Unstable" Ch -- 3 The Curious Case of Sherlock Holmes -- 4 John Barrymore's Introspective Performance in Beau Brummel -- 5 "Keep back your pity": The wounded Barrymore of The Sea Beast (1926) and Moby Dick (1930) -- 6 From Rome to Berlin: Barrymore as Romantic Lover -- 7 The Power of Stillness: John Barrymore's Performance in Svengali -- 8 Prospero Unbound: John Barrymore's Theatrical Transformations of Cinema Reality -- 9 A Star is Dead: Barrymore's Anti-Christian Metaperformance -- 10 Handling Time: The Passing of Tradition in A Bill of Divorcement -- 11 John Barrymore's Sparkling Topaze -- 12 "Planes, Motors, Schedules": Night Flight and the Modernity of John Barrymore -- 13 Barrymore and the Scene of Acting: Gesture, Speech, and the Repression of Cinematic Performance -- 14 "I Never Thought I Should Sink So Low as to Become an Actor": John Barrymore in Twentieth Century -- 15 Barrymore Does |
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