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Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film (Paperback)
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Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film is the first study
dedicated to understanding the work of female Method actors on
film. While Method acting on film has typically been associated
with the explosive machismo of actors like Marlon Brando and Robert
De Niro, this book explores an alternate tradition within the
Method-the work that women from the Actors Studio did in Hollywood.
Covering the period from the end of the Second World War until the
1970s, this study shows how the women associated with the Actors
Studio increasingly used Method acting in ways that were compatible
with their burgeoning feminist political commitments and developed
a style of feminist Method acting. The book examines the complex
intersection of Method acting, sexuality, and gender by analyzing
performances such as Kim Hunter's in A Streetcar Named Desire,
Julie Harris's in The Member of the Wedding, Shelley Winters's in
The Big Knife, Geraldine Page's in Sweet Bird of Youth, and Jane
Fonda's in Coming Home. Challenging the longstanding assumption
that Method acting's approaches were harmful to women and
incompatible with feminism, this book argues that some of
Hollywood's most interesting female actors, and leading feminists,
emerged from the Actors Studio in the period between the 1950s and
the 1970s. Written for students and scholars of Film Studies,
Cultural Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, and Gender
Studies, Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film reshapes the
way we think of a central strain in American screen acting, and in
doing so, allows women a new stake in that tradition.
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