Harvey James Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar 9780865478329

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Автор: Harvey James
Название: Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar
ISBN: 9780865478329
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0865478325
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 400
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 14.07.2015
Язык: English
Размер: 218 x 145 x 28
Поставляется из: США
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An intimate, thought-provoking exploration of the mysteries of star presence in cinema

One does not go to see them act, wrote James Baldwin about the great iconic movie stars Wayne and Davis and Bogart, one goes to watch them be . . . Of course. It seems obvious . . . Where else besides the movies do you get to see other persons so intimately, so pressingly, so largely even? Where else such intense and close, such sustained and searching looks as you have of these strangers on the screen, whoever they really are? In life you try not to stare; but at the movies thats exactly what you get to do, two hours or more--safely, raptly, even blissfully.

Its this sort of amplified, heightened, sometimes transcendent seeing that James Harvey explores in Watching Them Be. Marvelously vivid and perceptive, and impressively erudite, this is his take on how aura is communicated in movies. Beginning where Roland Barthes left off with the face of Greta Garbo and ending with Robert Bressons Au hasard Balthazar, Harvey moves nimbly and expertly through film history, celebrating actors and directors who have particularly conveyed a feeling of transcendence.
From Marlene Dietrich to John Wayne to Robert De Niro, from Nashville to Jackie Brown to Masculine Feminine and the implicitly or explicitly religious films of Roberto Rossellini and Carl Theodor Dreyer, this is one mans personal, deeply felt account of the films that have changed his life. They will also, Harvey suggests, change yours.

Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar, Harvey James