(Ebook) The Actress Hollywood Acting and the Female Star 1st Edition by Karen Hollinger ISBN 0203960254 9780203960257

(Ebook) The Actress Hollywood Acting and the Female Star 1st Edition by Karen Hollinger ISBN 0203960254 9780203960257

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ISBN 10: 0203960254 
ISBN 13: 9780203960257
Author: Karen Hollinger

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. 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.

(Ebook) The Actress Hollywood Acting and the Female Star 1st Table of contents:

Part I Acting, Stardom, and the Hollywood Actres
Chapter 1 The Hollywood Star–Actress and Studies of Acting
Film and Stage Acting: A Troubled Relationship
The Dominance of the Realist Aesthetic
Typologies of Acting Styles
Stanislavski or Strasberg?
Other Typologies of Film Acting
Semiotics and Kinesics
Gender Studies and Acting
Concluding Comments
References
Chapter 2 The Hollywood Star–Actress and Studies of Stardom
The Concept of Stardom
Major Approaches to the Study of Stars
References
Chapter 3 Star Acting and the Hollywood Star–Actress
Star Acting
The Star–Actress
Studies of Individual Female Stars
References
II Case Studies of Contemporary Star—Actresses
Chapter 4 “Magic Meryl”1: Meryl Streep
Career Trajectory: From Natural Talent to Melodramatic Mother
The Meryl Streep Image
The Greatest Actress of Her Time
Family: A Soccer Mom Deeply Involved in PTA Meetings
Social Activism: “… We Are all Political Actors, Aren't We?”
Approach to Acting: “I Don't Know about my Approach Because I Don't Have One”
Meryl Streep: Actress and Image
References
Chapter 5 Susan the Siren: Susan Sarandon
Career Trajectory: “You can't build a career … you know how irrational this business is”
The Susan Sarandon Image
Sexuality: “A Thinking Man's Object of Desire” (Smith)
Rebelliousness: “I just naturally have a problem with institutionalized anything.”
Approach to Acting: “An Organic Actress”
Susan Sarandon: Actress and Image
References
Chapter 6 “A Perfect Acting Machine”: Jodie Foster
Career Trajectory: From Mother to Daughter
The Jodie Foster Star Image
Privacy: “… She Has Never Given the Slightest Hint”
Courage: “The Only Thing I Know I Can't Play Is a Weak, Dizzy Woman”
Intelligence: “the Eleanor Roosevelt of Nineties Hollywood”
Approach to Acting: “I've Never Even Had an Acting Lesson”
Jodie Foster: Actress and Image
References
Chapter 7 Angela the Icon: Angela Bassett
Career Trajectory: God Is “the Greatest Casting Director and Agent There Is”
The Angela Bassett Image
Beauty, Glamour, Sexuality, Physicality: “A Real Movie Star Presence”16
The Role Model: Angela the Icon
Approach to Acting
Angela Bassett: Actress and Image
References
Chapter 8 The First Lady of Miramax: Gwyneth Paltrow
Career Trajectory: The “It Girl” or Not?
The Gwyneth Paltrow Image: “Gwynethness”19
“a Kind of Friendly Beauty”20
Childlike Naivete: “This Almost Holly Golightly Thing”
Class: “My Girl's Got Class”
Boyfriends: “I've Broken up with my Boyfriend, and it's Been on the Cover of People Twice”
An Image on the Brink of Self-Destrution: The Instability of “Gwynethness”
Approach to Acting
Gwyneth Paltrow: Actress and Image
References
Chapter 9 Conclusion
Career
Image
Acting
Ideological Significance
Reference

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