...a contribution to the neglected area of serious study of film acting... recommended... CHOICE

• Part 1 Preface Part 2 I Chapter 3 1. Roberta E. Pearson: "O'er Step not the Modesty of Nature": A Semiotic Approach to Acting in the Griffith Biographs Chapter 4 2. William Rothman: Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera Chapter 5 3. Jerome Delamter: Ritual, Realism and Abstraction: Performance in the Musical Chapter 6 4. Thomas Waugh:"Acting to Play Oneself": Notes on Perfomrance in Documentary Chapter 7 5. Bart Testa: Un Certain Regard: Characterization in the First Years of the French New Wave Chapter 8 6. Lucy Fischer: The Lives of Performers: The Actress as Signifier in Cinema Part 9 II Chapter 10 7. Marian Keane: The Great Profile: How Do We Know the Actor from the Acting? Chapter 11 8. Noel Carroll: Keaton: film Acting as Action Chapter 12 9. Sylvie Gendron, translated by Anne Golden with Carole Zucker: Actor and Text: La Grande Illusion Chapter 13 10. Carole Zucker: "I Am Dietrich and Dietrich is Me"; An Investigation of Performance Style in Moroccoe and Shaghai Express Chapter 14 11. Johanne Larue and Carole Zucker: James Dean The Post of Reality? East of Eden and the Method Performance Chapter 15 12. Mario Falsetto: The Mad and the Beautiful: A Look at Two Performances in the Films of Stanley Kubrick Chapter 16 13. Doug Tomlinson: Performance in the Films of Robert Bresson: The Aesthetics of Denial Chapter 17 14. Angela Dalle Vacche: Representation, Spectacle, Performance in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist Part 18 Notes on Contributors Part 19 Index

...a contribution to the neglected area of serious study of film acting... recommended... CHOICE

• Part 1 Preface Part 2 I Chapter 3 1. Roberta E. Pearson: "O'er Step not the Modesty of Nature": A Semiotic Approach to Acting in the Griffith Biographs Chapter 4 2. William Rothman: Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera Chapter 5 3. Jerome Delamter: Ritual, Realism and Abstraction: Performance in the Musical Chapter 6 4. Thomas Waugh:"Acting to Play Oneself": Notes on Perfomrance in Documentary Chapter 7 5. Bart Testa: Un Certain Regard: Characterization in the First Years of the French New Wave Chapter 8 6. Lucy Fischer: The Lives of Performers: The Actress as Signifier in Cinema Part 9 II Chapter 10 7. Marian Keane: The Great Profile: How Do We Know the Actor from the Acting? Chapter 11 8. Noel Carroll: Keaton: film Acting as Action Chapter 12 9. Sylvie Gendron, translated by Anne Golden with Carole Zucker: Actor and Text: La Grande Illusion Chapter 13 10. Carole Zucker: "I Am Dietrich and Dietrich is Me"; An Investigation of Performance Style in Moroccoe and Shaghai Express Chapter 14 11. Johanne Larue and Carole Zucker: James Dean The Post of Reality? East of Eden and the Method Performance Chapter 15 12. Mario Falsetto: The Mad and the Beautiful: A Look at Two Performances in the Films of Stanley Kubrick Chapter 16 13. Doug Tomlinson: Performance in the Films of Robert Bresson: The Aesthetics of Denial Chapter 17 14. Angela Dalle Vacche: Representation, Spectacle, Performance in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist Part 18 Notes on Contributors Part 19 Index

...a contribution to the neglected area of serious study of film acting... recommended... CHOICE

• Part 1 Preface Part 2 I Chapter 3 1. Roberta E. Pearson: "O'er Step not the Modesty of Nature": A Semiotic Approach to Acting in the Griffith Biographs Chapter 4 2. William Rothman: Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera Chapter 5 3. Jerome Delamter: Ritual, Realism and Abstraction: Performance in the Musical Chapter 6 4. Thomas Waugh:"Acting to Play Oneself": Notes on Perfomrance in Documentary Chapter 7 5. Bart Testa: Un Certain Regard: Characterization in the First Years of the French New Wave Chapter 8 6. Lucy Fischer: The Lives of Performers: The Actress as Signifier in Cinema Part 9 II Chapter 10 7. Marian Keane: The Great Profile: How Do We Know the Actor from the Acting? Chapter 11 8. Noel Carroll: Keaton: film Acting as Action Chapter 12 9. Sylvie Gendron, translated by Anne Golden with Carole Zucker: Actor and Text: La Grande Illusion Chapter 13 10. Carole Zucker: "I Am Dietrich and Dietrich is Me"; An Investigation of Performance Style in Moroccoe and Shaghai Express Chapter 14 11. Johanne Larue and Carole Zucker: James Dean The Post of Reality? East of Eden and the Method Performance Chapter 15 12. Mario Falsetto: The Mad and the Beautiful: A Look at Two Performances in the Films of Stanley Kubrick Chapter 16 13. Doug Tomlinson: Performance in the Films of Robert Bresson: The Aesthetics of Denial Chapter 17 14. Angela Dalle Vacche: Representation, Spectacle, Performance in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist Part 18 Notes on Contributors Part 19 Index