Description:
This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history. This second volume focuses on international cinema, and includes case studies of key performances from actors like Ingrid Bergman, Nikolai Cherkassov, Alec Guinness and Isabelle Huppert.
Brief description: Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is the author of The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure (2020), Grammatical Dreams (2020), Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic (2019), A Dream of Hitchcock (2019), and Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory (2018), among many other volumes, and editor or co-editor of more than two dozen books including The Other Hollywood Renaissance (2020). He edits the "Horizons of Cinema" series at SUNY Press and the "Techniques of the Moving Image" series at Rutgers. A Voyage with Hitchcock and Color It True: Impressions of Cinema are both forthcoming.
Review Quotes: Mustering a wide array of voices and perspectives, these game-changing volumes provide a welcome scholarly corrective to the scandalous undervaluation of actors, acting, and performance that has prevailed in cinema studies for far too long. This collection promises to shape discourse on screen acting for many years to come.--David Sterritt, Maryland Institute College of Art