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Table of Contents: “…Chapter 12 Peter Sellers in The Pink PantherChapter 13 Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Chapter 14 Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy; Chapter 15 Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night; Chapter 16 Gene Hackman in The Conversation; Chapter 17 Gena Rowlands in Gloria; Chapter 18 Jack Nicholson in The Passenger; Chapter 19 Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man; Chapter 20 Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye; Chapter 21 Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco; Chapter 22 Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple; Chapter 23 Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine; Chapter 24 Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year…”
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Table of Contents: “…Jane Fonda: from graylist to A-list / Maria Pramaggiore -- Robert Redford and Warren Beatty: consensus starts for a post-consensus age / Chris Cagle -- Al Pacino: from the mob to the mineshaft / Joe Wlodarz -- Jodie Foster and Brooke Shields: "new ways to look at the young" / Cynthia Erb -- Richard Roundtree: inventing shaft / Jans Wager -- Shelly Winters: camp, abjection and the aging start / James Morrison -- Faye Dunaway: stardom and ambivalence / Thomas Schur -- Divine: toward an "imperfect" stardom / Karl Schoonover -- Julie Christie and Vanessa Redgrave: performance and the politics of singularity / Nick Davis -- Donald Sutherland: the politics and erotics of submission / Jean Walton -- In the wings / James Morrison.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 1 'If I'm right': Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare -- 2 'I see my father' in 'my mind's eye': Surveillance and the Filmic Hamlet -- 3 Backstage Pass(ing): Stage Beauty, Othello and the Make-up of Race -- 4 The Postnostalgic Renaissance: The 'Place' of Liverpool in Don Boyd's My Kingdom -- 5 Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism -- 6 Looking for Shylock: Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Radford and Al Pacino -- 7 Speaking Maori Shakespeare: The Maori Merchant of Venice and the Legacy of Colonisation -- 8 'Into a thousand parts divide one man': Dehumanised Metafiction and Fragmented Documentary in Peter Babakitis' Henry V -- 9 Screening the McShakespeare in Post-Millennial Shakespeare Cinema -- 10 Shakespeare and the Singletons, or, Beatrice Meets Bridget Jones: Post-Feminism, Popular Culture and 'Shakespea(Re)-Told'.…”
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Table of Contents: “…: the mechanics of masculinity / Rikki Morgan -- Empire, identity and place: masculinities in Greystoke: the legend of Tarzan / Griselda Pollock -- 'Too straight a drive to the tollbooth': masculinity, mortality and Al Pacino / Susannah Radstone -- Oscar Micheaux's multifaceted portrayals of the African-American male: the good, the bad and the ugly / Charlene Regester -- Melodrama and men in post-classical romantic comedy / Kathleen Rowe -- 'I don't know whether to look at him or read him': Cape Fear and male scarification / Helen Stoddart -- Burt's neck: masculine corporeality and estrangement / Gillian Swanson -- 'Mad about the boy': masculinity and career in Sunset boulevard / Sarah Street -- 'Maybe he's tough but he sure ain't no carpenter': masculinity and in/competence in Unforgiven / Janet Thumim -- From proletarian hero to godfather: Jean Gabin and 'paradigmatic' French masculinity / Ginette Vincendeau -- Changing places? …”

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Table of Contents: “…British theater : the fight against situational chat ; Neocolonial puns and games : The National Theatre of Great Britain ; Uneasy lie the crowns : Wilfred Lawson and others ; Richard unbeckoned : Joseph Papp in Central Park ; Et al, Brute : Al Pacino ; The Abbey Theatre : speechless at last ; Out, out, loose canon : The New York Shakespeare Festival ; Brevity is the soul of grit : Dustin Hoffman ; Ardent sex change : Christopher Grabowski ; Cracking the code : Hugh Whitemore ; Theater mania : Peter Hall and others ; Serious money : Caryl Churchill ; Sublime neglect : George Chapman and others ; Hare today : David Hare ; Playing with ire : Alex Jennings, Peter O'Toole, and Mark Rylance.…”
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