Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film

ISBN-13: 9780367463465 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 156 str.

Keri Walsh

Opis

This is the first study dedicated to understanding the work of female Method actors on film, analyzing performances such as Kim Hunter’s in A Streetcar Named Desire, Julie Harris’s in The Member of the Wedding, Geraldine Page’s in Sweet Bird of Youth, and Jane Fonda’s in Coming Home.

Spis treści

1. Women and the Method  2. Kim Hunter’s Feminist Method  3. Protest Performances: Actor Rebellion as Feminist Critique  4. Jane Fonda: Method Auteur

O autorze

Keri Walsh is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University in New York. She is the author of Mickey Rourke in the BFI Film Stars Series and editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach. In 2018 she was named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.