Some Versions of Cary Grant

In his lively, accessible Some Versions of Cary Grant, author James Naremore argues for the outsized importance of Cary Grant to the history of film and of Hollywood.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Chapter One: Introduction to Methods and a Brief History of a Star


• Chapter Two: Farceur Cary


• Chapter Three: Dark Cary


• Chapter Four: Romantic Cary


• Chapter Five: Domestic Cary


• Chapter Six: Cockney Cary


• Index

About the author

James Naremore is author of many books on film, among them The Magic World of Orson Welles, Acting in the Cinema, and More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts.

Summary

In his lively, accessible Some Versions of Cary Grant, author James Naremore argues for the outsized importance of Cary Grant to the history of film and of Hollywood.

Additional text

James Naremore's rare and dazzling ability to analyze the subtleties of screen acting makes this study of what he shows to be the surprisingly rich persona of Cary Grant an engrossing, enlightening, and entertaining read.

Product details

• Authors: James Naremore, James (Chancellors'' Professor Emeritus Naremore, Naremore James
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2022
• EAN: 9780197566381
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756638-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism