Hamlet lives in Hollywood : John Barrymore and the acting tradition onscreen / / edited by Murray Pomerance and Steven Rybin [[electronic resource]]
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 791.45028092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Actors - United States |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Biography |
| Persona (resp. second.): | PomeranceMurray <1946-> |
| RybinSteven <1979-> | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hamlet lives in Hollywood |
| ISBN: | 1-4744-3187-9 |
| 1-4744-3844-X | |
| 1-4744-1141-X | |
| 1-4744-1140-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910793399303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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