Gestures of love : romancing performance in classical Hollywood cinema / by Steven Rybin.

By:

Rybin, Steven, 1979- [Author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781438465531

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LOC classification:

PN1995 .G478 2017

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Contents:

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.

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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.