Virtuoso : film performance and the actor's magic /: film performance and the actor's magic. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Murray Pomerance.
• Authors: Pomerance, Murray, 1946-
• Contents: A brief history of the virtuosic moment -- Showing off -- Effacement and allure -- Money -- "I am acting" -- "I am on show" -- Charisma as commodity -- Outstanding -- Virtuosity superimposed -- Spontaneity -- In dreams awake -- A feminine mystique -- Tortures -- Secret virtuosity -- (In)credible belief -- Touched by the camera -- Improvise -- Breathe -- Director/virtuoso -- Heimlichkeit -- Collapse -- Bigger than life -- The spectacle of things falling apart -- Limping on -- The eternal return -- Borders -- Facing -- Louder louder, softer softer -- Virtuosity classical -- Near misses -- Discounts -- Virtuosic silence -- Virtuosic support -- Control -- Virtuosic play-within-play -- Upstairs downstairs -- Lost in the stars -- Virtuosity pianissimo virtuosity forte -- Virtuosity as event -- Indelibles -- Virtuosity and "the virtuoso" -- Negative virtuosity -- Virtuosic slippage -- The end or "end" of virtuosic performance -- Coda. A thought of conclusion.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.4302/8; Motion picture acting; Motion picture acting -- Case studies; Motion pictures -- History; Motion pictures -- History -- Case studies; Motion picture acting; Motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Case studies; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501350696; 1501350692
• Related ISBNs: 9781501350689; 1501350684; 9781501350672; 1501350676
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.