TY - BOOK AU - Pomerance,Murray AU - Rybin,Steven TI - Hamlet lives in Hollywood: John Barrymore and the acting tradition onscreen T2 - Edinburgh scholarship online SN - 9781474411400 AV - PN2287 .H365 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Barrymore, John, KW - Actors KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Intro; Contents; Figures; The Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Pre-Bard Stage Career of John Barrymore; 2 Dangerously Modern: Shakespeare, Voice, and the "New Psychology" in John Barrymore's "Unstable" Ch; 3 The Curious Case of Sherlock Holmes; 4 John Barrymore's Introspective Performance in Beau Brummel; 5 "Keep back your pity": The wounded Barrymore of The Sea Beast (1926) and Moby Dick (1930); 6 From Rome to Berlin: Barrymore as Romantic Lover; 7 The Power of Stillness: John Barrymore's Performance in Svengali; 8 Prospero Unbound: John Barrymore's Theatrical Transformations of Cinema Reality9 A Star is Dead: Barrymore's Anti-Christian Metaperformance; 10 Handling Time: The Passing of Tradition in A Bill of Divorcement; 11 John Barrymore's Sparkling Topaze; 12 "Planes, Motors, Schedules": Night Flight and the Modernity of John Barrymore; 13 Barrymore and the Scene of Acting: Gesture, Speech, and the Repression of Cinematic Performance; 14 "I Never Thought I Should Sink So Low as to Become an Actor": John Barrymore in Twentieth Century; 2; b N2 - This book, a collection of fifteen original essays on the film performances and stardom of John Barrymore, redresses the lack of scholarship on Barrymore by offering a range of varied perspectives on the actor's work UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1923820&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -