Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction

PART ONE Performance in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction

2 Protocols
The Performance Frame
What Is Acting?
The Actor and the Audience

3 Rhetoric and Expressive Technique

4 Expressive Coherence and Performance within
Performance

5 Accessories
Expressive Objects
Costume
Makeup
 
PART TWO Star Performances

6 Lillian Gish in True Heart Susie (1919)
7 Charles Chaplin In The Gold Rush (1925)
8 Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930)
9 James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
10 Katharine Hepburn in Holiday (1938)
11 Marlon Brando In On the Waterfront (1954)
12 Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959)

PART THREE Film as a Performance Text

13 Rear Window (1954)
14 The King of Comedy (1983)

Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

James Naremore is director of the film studies program at Indiana University.

Reviews

"Each chapter is richly informed about the films and their various cultural intersections, so the reader has the sense of participating in a fascinating discussion that refuses the temptation of closure and eventually stops without concluding. If Naremore's book is, like the concept it describes, a bit of a baggy monster, it is well worth the encounter."--"Choice

"Each chapter is richly informed about the films and their various cultural intersections, so the reader has the sense of participating in a fascinating discussion that refuses the temptation of closure and eventually stops without concluding. If Naremore's book is, like the concept it describes, a bit of a baggy monster, it is well worth the encounter."--"Choice