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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793399303321

Autore

Pomerance Murray

Titolo

Hamlet lives in Hollywood : John Barrymore and the acting tradition onscreen / / edited by Murray Pomerance and Steven Rybin [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-4744-3187-9

1-4744-3844-X

1-4744-1141-X

1-4744-1140-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

791.45028092

Soggetti

Actors - United States

Biography

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Barrymore: The Performing Self Triumphant in The Great Profile -- Works Cited.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, a collection of fifteen original essays on the film performances and stardom of John Barrymore, redresses the lack of scholarship on Barrymore by offering a range of varied perspectives on the actor's work.