Virtuoso : film performance and the actor's magic /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pomerance, Murray, 1946- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • A brief history of the virtuosic moment
  • Showing off
  • Effacement and allure
  • Money
  • "I am acting"
  • "I am on show"
  • Charisma as commodity
  • Outstanding
  • Virtuosity superimposed
  • Spontaneity
  • In dreams awake
  • A feminine mystique
  • Tortures
  • Secret virtuosity
  • (In)credible belief
  • Touched by the camera
  • Improvise
  • Breathe
  • Director/virtuoso
  • Heimlichkeit
  • Collapse
  • Bigger than life
  • The spectacle of things falling apart
  • Limping on
  • The eternal return
  • Borders
  • Facing
  • Louder louder, softer softer
  • Virtuosity classical
  • Near misses
  • Discounts
  • Virtuosic silence
  • Virtuosic support
  • Control
  • Virtuosic play-within-play
  • Upstairs downstairs
  • Lost in the stars
  • Virtuosity pianissimo virtuosity forte
  • Virtuosity as event
  • Indelibles
  • Virtuosity and "the virtuoso"
  • Negative virtuosity
  • Virtuosic slippage
  • The end or "end" of virtuosic performance
  • Coda. A thought of conclusion.