Description Performers make a crucial contribution to the Achievement of narrative films.
His previous books include Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film..
About the Author Andrew Klevan is a lecturer at the University of Kent in Canterbury.
These reveal the significance and intensity of a performer\'s engagement with the world of a film.
This study concentrates on films From the \'Golden Age\' of Hollywood and moment-by-moment descriptions enable fresh interpretations to emerge and evolve.
By moving through exemplary sequences, this book closely follows the movement and behaviour of screen performers - Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Widmark - and by emphasising their relationship to other aspects of Film style - camera, location and plot - it develops accounts that are specific and involved.
Description Performers make a crucial contribution to the Achievement of narrative films
