The actress

Description

The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star investigates the contemporary film actress both as an artist and as an ideological construct. Divided into two sections, The Actress first examines the major issues in studying film acting, stardom, and the Hollywood actress. Part Two examines five case studies: Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jodie Foster, Angela Basset, and Gwyneth Paltrow, each of whose careers exemplify key issues in the creation of film stardom, the function of acting style, and the creation of celebrity. Combining theories of screen acting and of film stardom, The Actress presents a synthesis of methodologies and offers the student and scholar a new approach to these two subjects of study.Throughout the book, Hollinger emphasizes the craft of acting, a dimension of the subject often given less attention than other elements in the study of female stardom.

Description

Examining the major issues in studying film acting, stardom and the Hollywood actress, this book combines theories of screen acting and film stardom to present the student with a fresh approach to these two popular study topics.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography.

Other Editions

• The actress: Hollywood acting and the female starRoutledge2006-01-01
• The ActressElectronic resourceTaylor and Francis2006-01-01
• The ActressRoutledge2006-04-19
• The ActressRoutledge2006-04-26
• ActressTaylor & Francis Group2010-01-01
• ActressTaylor & Francis Group2013-01-01