Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood.
Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
What makes these performances so special? Eloquently written and
engagingly laid out, Murray Pomerance answers the tough question as
to what makes an exceptional, or virtuosic performance. Pomerance
intensively explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from
classical works through to contemporary production, and gives
serious consideration to structural problems of dramatization and
production, actorial methods and tricks, and contingencies that
befall performers giving stand-out moments. Looking at more than 40
aspects of the virtuosic act, and using an approach based in
careful meditation and discursion, Virtuoso moves through such
themes as showing off, effacement, self-consciousness, performative
collapse, spontaneity, acting as dream, acting and femininity,
virtuosity and torture, secrecy, improvisation, virtuosic silence,
and others; giving special attention to the labors of such figures
as Fred Astaire, Johnny Depp, Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone,
Christopher Plummer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alice Brady, Ethel Waters,
James Mason, and dozens more. Numerous scenic virtuosities are
examined in depth, from films as far-ranging as Singin' in the Rain
and The Bridge on the River Kwai, and My Man Godfrey. As the first
book about virtuosity in film performance, Virtuoso offers exciting
new angles from which to view film both classical and contemporary.
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