Rybin, Steven,  1979- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438465531 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016047977 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Love in motion pictures.<br/>Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Motion pictures--Production and direction--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Motion pictures--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.<br/>Motion picture acting.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995  / .G478 2017