Watching Them Be - Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar

Demystifying the "star presence" in cinema, this provocative look at how aura is communicated in movies throughout history celebrates the actors and directors who have particularly conveyed a feeling of transcendence including Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Robert De Niro and Roberto Rossellini. 10,000 first printing.

List of contents

Preface
Part One: Icons
1. Garbo
2. Dietrich and Sternberg
3. Bergman and Selznick
4. Wayne and Ford
5. Davis and Wyler
6. Charles Laughton

Part Two: Realists

7. Robert De Niro

8. Altman's Nashville

9. Jackie Brown and Others

10. Godard's Closeups

Part Three: Transcenders

11. Bergman and Rossellini

12. Dreyer's Heroines

13. Balthazar

About the author

James Harvey

Product details

• Authors: James Harvey
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780865478329
• ISBN: 978-0-86547-832-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet