Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Keri Walsh, Walsh Keri
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367463465
• ISBN: 978-0-367-46346-5
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Gender studies, gender groups, Acting techniques