Watching them be
Subtitle: star presence on the screen from Garbo to Balthazar
By: James Harvey
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, Inc.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780571211975
Subjects: Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: Demystifying the "star presence" in cinema, this provocative look at how aura is communicated in movies throughout history celebrates the actors and directors who have particularly conveyed a feeling of transcendence including Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Robert De Niro and Roberto Rossellini.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-363) and index.
Table of contents: title: Icons. Garbo; title: Dietrich and Sternberg; title: Bergman and Selznick; title: Wayne and Ford; title: Davis and Wyler; title: Charles Laughton; title: Realists. Robert De Niro; title: Altman's Nashville; title: Jackie Brown and others; title: Godard's closeups; title: Transcenders. Bergman and Rossellini; title: Dreyer's heroines; title: Balthazar.