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Gestures of Love

Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema

By: Steven Rybin

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Gestures of Love

Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema

By: Steven Rybin

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen. Gestures of Love considers the viewers enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven Rybin examines several of cinemas most beloved on-screen movie couples, including Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and William Powell, Carole Lombard and John Barrymore, Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, and Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone. Using the classical genres of screwball comedy, film noir, and the family melodrama as touchstones, Rybin places the depiction of romance in films into dialogue with the viewers own emotional bond to the actors on the screen. In doing so, he offers rich new analyses of such classic films as Bringing Up Baby, The Thin Man, Twentieth Century, Laura, To Have and Have Not, Tea and Sympathy, Written on the Wind, and more. Steven Rybins Gestures of Love presents a compelling series of close readings focused on cinematic performances from the classical Hollywood eraa series of readings that not only function independently but also build and reflect on one another as the text moves forward. Engagingly written and unapologetically driven by the authors own pleasures, the text will appeal to readers interested in cinephilia, actors in performance, and classical Hollywood more generally. David T. Johnson, author of Richard Linklater Gestures of Love is the first book to explore issues of stardom and performance through the lens of cinephilia studies. Steven Rybin astutely demonstrates how a star couples performance of love may be refracted through a viewers love of performance. Lucid and invigorating, this book reconsiders celebrated duos, from Hepburn and Grant to Bogart and Bacall to Hudson and Malone, as well as the evolution of love in classical Hollywood. Rashna Wadia Richards, author of Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood

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1438465513

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Gestures of Love

Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema

By: Steven Rybin

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Gestures of Love

Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema

By: Steven Rybin

Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven Rybin examines several of cinema's most beloved on-screen movie couples, including Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and William Powell, Carole Lombard and John Barrymore, Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, and Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone. Using the classical genres of screwball comedy, film noir, and the family melodrama as touchstones, Rybin places the depiction of romance in films into dialogue with the viewer's own emotional bond to the actors on the screen. In doing so, he offers rich new analyses of such classic films as Bringing Up Baby, The Thin Man, Twentieth Century, Laura, To Have and Have Not, Tea and Sympathy, Written on the Wind, and more.

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State University of New York Press

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143846553X

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Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

By: Steven Rybin

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Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

By: Steven Rybin

As the director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World, Terrence Malick has created a remarkable body of work that enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Steven Rybin's Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film looks closely at the dialogue between Malick's films and our powers of thinking, showing how his work casts the philosophy of thinkers such as Stanley Cavell, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Andr Bazin, Edgar Morin, and Immanuel Kant in new cinematic light. With a special focus on how the voices of Malick's characters move us to thought, Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film offers new readings of his films and places Malick's work in the context of recent debates in the interdisciplinary field of film and philosophy. Rybin also provides a postscript on Malick's recently-released fifth film, The Tree of Life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739166751

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9780739166758

Geraldine Chaplin

The Gift of Film Performance

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Geraldine Chaplin

The Gift of Film Performance

By: Rybin Steven Rybin

Geraldine Chaplin is the most distinguished actor among Charlie Chaplin's children. Through her collaborations with major international film directors, she has created a striking performative presence across international cinema. Her acting also evokes, with varying levels of self-consciousness and in shifting cinematic contexts, the memory of her father's screen performances. This book analyses the distinctive screen art of Geraldine Chaplin and uncover parallels between her performances and her father's work on film. Through this method, this star study explores the rich and surprising relationships between art cinema and silent film comedy, and between modernist and classical cinematic performance. It offers a long overdue appreciation of Geraldine Chaplin's own remarkable screen achievements, all the while shedding new insight into the art of Charlie Chaplin through the singular prism of his daughter's bold work.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474427995

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9781474427999

The Cinema of Michael Mann

By: Steven Rybin

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The Cinema of Michael Mann

By: Steven Rybin

Few other contemporary Hollywood filmmakers fit the category of 'genre stylist' as well as Michael Mann, the director of such films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Manhunter, Thief, and Miami Vice. Mann's film style marks him as a director who chooses the iconographic backdrop of a genre as a canvas upon which he and his collaborators can craft a unique cinematic vision. The Cinema of Michael Mann traces the innovative and under-explored stylistic contours of Mann's work, the director's inflection upon and innovation within preexisting genre frameworks, and the relationship of both style and genre to issues of authorship and film criticism. Steven Rybin's critical study of Mann's cinema, and the importance of the filmmaker's themes to our contemporary world, is valuable for both film scholars and cinephiles alike.

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Lexington Books

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073915303X

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9780739153031

Michael Mann

Crime Auteur

By: Steven Rybin

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Michael Mann

Crime Auteur

By: Steven Rybin

Michael Mann first made his mark as a writer for such television programs as Starsky and Hutch, Police Story, and Vegas. In 1981 he made his feature film directing debut with the James Caan thriller Thief, and in the 1980s he served as a writer and executive producer for the groundbreaking programs Miami Vice and Crime Story. Though he has delved into other genres, Mann’s career as a writer, producer, and director has consistently focused on criminal activity, from small-time hoods and professional thieves to corporate manipulators and serial killers. In Michael Mann: Crime Auteur, Steven Rybin looks at the television programs and films that Mann has stamped with his personal signature. This book closely examines the themes and techniques used in films such as Manhunter, Heat, The Insider, and Collateral and connects these elements to his work on the non-genre films The Last of the Mohicans and Ali. A revised and significantly expanded edition of The Cinema of Michael Mann (2007), this book includes new chapters on Public Enemies and the big screen version of Miami Vice, as well as Mann’s work on the shows Crime Story and Luck. Covering Mann’s entire career, this book will be of interest to fans of the writer/director’s body of work as well as to scholars of both film and television.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810890844

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Playful Frames

Styles of Widescreen Cinema

By: Steven Rybin

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Playful Frames

Styles of Widescreen Cinema

By: Steven Rybin

A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redirect audience expectations, surprising viewers through the use of a wider, more expansive screen. Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers – Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter – who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades of the twentieth century. Exploring the relationship between aspect ratio and subject matter, Playful Frames shows how directors make puckish use of widescreen technology. All four of these distinctive filmmakers reimagined popular genres (such as melodrama, slapstick comedy, film noir, science fiction, and horror cinema) through their use of the wide frame, and each brings a range of intermedial interests (painting, performance, and music) to their use of the widescreen image. This study looks specifically at the technological underpinnings, aesthetic shapes, and interpretive implications of these four directors’ creative use of widescreen, offering a way to reconsider the way wide imagery still has the potential to amaze and move us today.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978815964

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Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

By: Steven Rybin

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Rowman & Littlefield

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The Cinema of Michael Mann

By: Steven Rybin

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The Cinema of Michael Mann

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Examines the work of Michael Mann, Hollywood director through a critical study of his film style and its relationship to genre, film criticism, auteurism, and historical context. This book covers Mann's filmography, from his beginning in television to his film adaptation of the television series "Miami Vice".

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Lexington Books

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0739120433

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Geraldine Chaplin

The Gift of Film Performance

By: Steven Rybin

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Geraldine Chaplin

The Gift of Film Performance

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This book analyses the distinctive screen art of Geraldine Chaplin and uncover parallels between her performances and her father's work on film and thereby explores the rich and surprising relationships between art cinema and silent film comedy, and between modernist and classical cinematic performance.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474427987

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Michael Mann

Crime Auteur

By: Steven Rybin

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Michael Mann

Crime Auteur

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Playful Frames

Styles of Widescreen Cinema

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Styles of Widescreen Cinema

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Stellar Transformations

Movie Stars of the 2010s

By: Steven Rybin

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Stellar Transformations

Movie Stars of the 2010s

By: Steven Rybin

Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as the way in which post-millennial movie stars are in one way or another reshaping ideas of performance and star presence, either through the self-conscious revision of aspects of their own personas or in redirecting or progressing some earlier aspect of the culture. Including a diverse lineup of stars such as Oscar Isaac, Kristen Stewart, Tilda Swinton, and Tyler Perry, the chapters in Stellar Transformations paint the portrait of the meaning of star images during the complex decade of the 2010s, and in doing so will offer useful case studies for scholars and students engaged in the study of stardom, celebrity, and performance in cinema"--

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1978818343

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Gestures of Love

Gestures of Love

Gestures of Love

Gestures of Love

Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Chaplin

The Cinema of Michael Mann

The Cinema of Michael Mann

Michael Mann

Michael Mann

Playful Frames

Playful Frames

Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

The Cinema of Michael Mann

The Cinema of Michael Mann

Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Chaplin

Michael Mann

Michael Mann

Playful Frames

Playful Frames

Stellar Transformations

Stellar Transformations

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