Gestures of love : romancing performance in classical Hollywood cinema /
Rybin, Steven, 1979-
Gestures of love : romancing performance in classical Hollywood cinema / by Steven Rybin. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - SUNY series, horizons of cinema .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: The actor's heartbeat -- Part one: Screwball love -- Love's final irony: John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth century -- Wicked jaws, lanky brunettes: Myrna Loy and William Powell in The thin man and Libeled lady -- "You look so silly": Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Sylvia Scarlett, Holiday, Bringing up baby, and The Philadelphia story -- Part two: noir amour -- Love's possession: Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in Laura -- Wooing bogie, courting Bacall: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To have and have not, The big sleep, Dark passage, and Key Largo -- Part three: Love and melodrama -- Lipstick on a teacup: performance in Vincente Minnelli's The cobweb and Tea and sympathy -- Hudson, Bacall, Stack, Malone: love and gesture in Douglas Sirk's Written on the wind -- Coda: Modern love.
9781438465531
2016047977
Love in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Production and direction--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Motion picture acting.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .G478 2017
Gestures of love : romancing performance in classical Hollywood cinema / by Steven Rybin. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - SUNY series, horizons of cinema .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: The actor's heartbeat -- Part one: Screwball love -- Love's final irony: John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth century -- Wicked jaws, lanky brunettes: Myrna Loy and William Powell in The thin man and Libeled lady -- "You look so silly": Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Sylvia Scarlett, Holiday, Bringing up baby, and The Philadelphia story -- Part two: noir amour -- Love's possession: Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in Laura -- Wooing bogie, courting Bacall: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To have and have not, The big sleep, Dark passage, and Key Largo -- Part three: Love and melodrama -- Lipstick on a teacup: performance in Vincente Minnelli's The cobweb and Tea and sympathy -- Hudson, Bacall, Stack, Malone: love and gesture in Douglas Sirk's Written on the wind -- Coda: Modern love.
9781438465531
2016047977
Love in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Production and direction--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Motion picture acting.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .G478 2017