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GESTURES OF LOVE: ROMANCING PERFORMANCE IN CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA (SUNY SERIES, HORIZONS OF CINEMA) By Steven Rybin - Hardcover.

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Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven Rybin examines several of cinema's most beloved on-screen movie couples, including Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and William Powell, Carole Lombard and John Barrymore, Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, and Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone. Using the classical genres of screwball comedy, film noir, and the family melodrama as touchstones, Rybin places the depiction of romance in films into dialogue with the viewer's own emotional bond to the actors on the screen. In doing so, he offers rich new analyses of such classic films as Bringing Up Baby , The Thin Man , Twentieth Century , Laura , To Have and Have Not , Tea and Sympathy , Written on the Wind , and more.

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Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
1438465513
ISBN-13
9781438465517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234609838

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gestures of Love
Author
Steven Rybin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Acting & Auditioning, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
282 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
8 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.L6r93 2017
Reviews
"... Gestures of Love builds a cogent and engaging narrative that offers a refreshingly modern and meticulously analyzed reading of some of the most beloved classics of American cinema, while shedding new light on the way audience's love of performance and performers becomes part of a film's very lifeblood." -- Film International "Steven Rybin's Gestures of Love presents a compelling series of close readings focused on cinematic performances from the classical Hollywood era--a series of readings that not only function independently but also build and reflect on one another as the text moves forward. Engagingly written and unapologetically driven by the author's own pleasures, the text will appeal to readers interested in cinephilia, actors in performance, and classical Hollywood more generally." -- David T. Johnson, author of Richard Linklater " Gestures of Love is the first book to explore issues of stardom and performance through the lens of cinephilia studies. Steven Rybin astutely demonstrates how a star couple's performance of love may be refracted through a viewer's love of performance. Lucid and invigorating, this book reconsiders celebrated duos, from Hepburn and Grant to Bogart and Bacall to Hudson and Malone, as well as the evolution of love in classical Hollywood." -- Rashna Wadia Richards, author of Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood, "Steven Rybin's Gestures of Love presents a compelling series of close readings focused on cinematic performances from the classical Hollywood era-a series of readings that not only function independently but also build and reflect on one another as the text moves forward. Engagingly written and unapologetically driven by the author's own pleasures, the text will appeal to readers interested in cinephilia, actors in performance, and classical Hollywood more generally." - David T. Johnson, author of Richard Linklater " Gestures of Love is the first book to explore issues of stardom and performance through the lens of cinephilia studies. Steven Rybin astutely demonstrates how a star couple's performance of love may be refracted through a viewer's love of performance. Lucid and invigorating, this book reconsiders celebrated duos, from Hepburn and Grant to Bogart and Bacall to Hudson and Malone, as well as the evolution of love in classical Hollywood." - Rashna Wadia Richards, author of Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prelude: Little Bursting Bubbles Introduction: The Actor's Heartbeat Part I: Screwball Love 1. Love's Final Irony: John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth Century 2. Wicked Jaws, Lanky Brunettes: Myrna Loy and William Powell in The Thin Man and Libeled Lady 3. "You Look So Silly": Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Sylvia Scarlett , Holiday , Bringing Up Baby , and The Philadelphia Story Part II: Noir Amour 4. Love's Possession: Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in Laura 5. Wooing Bogie, Courting Bacall: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not , The Big Sleep , Dark Passage , and Key Largo Part III: Love and Melodrama 6. Lipstick on a Teacup: Performance in Vincente Minnelli's The Cobweb and Tea and Sympathy 7. Hudson, Bacall, Stack, Malone: Love and Gesture in Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind Coda: Modern Love Works Cited Index
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-031471
Dewey Decimal
791.436543
Series
Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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