Hamlet Lives in Hollywood: John Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen

Hamlet Lives in Hollywood

John Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen

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Edited by Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University, Steven Rybin, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: June 2018
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781474411400

Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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This book, a collection of fifteen original essays on the film performances and stardom of John Barrymore, redresses the lack of scholarship on Barrymore by offering a range of varied perspectives on the actor's work.

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Hamlet Lives in Hollywood

John Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of Figures
pp v-vi

The Contributors
pp vii-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-9

1 - The Pre-Bard Stage Career of John Barrymore
pp 10-21

2 - Dangerously Modern: Shakespeare, Voice, and the “New Psychology” in John Barrymore's “Unstable” Characters
pp 22-34

3 - The Curious Case of Sherlock Holmes
pp 35-46

4 - John Barrymore's Introspective Performance in Beau Brummel
pp 47-58

5 - “Keep Back your Pity”: The Wounded Barrymore of The Sea Beast and Moby Dick
pp 59-70

6 - From Rome to Berlin: Barrymore as Romantic Lover
pp 71-84

7 - The Power of Stillness: John Barrymore's Performance in Svengali
pp 85-97

8 - Prospero Unbound: John Barrymore's Theatrical Transformations of Cinema Reality
pp 98-108

9 - A Star is Dead: Barrymore's Anti-Christian Metaperformance
pp 109-122

10 - Handling Time: The Passing of Tradition in A Bill of Divorcement
pp 123-134

11 - John Barrymore's Sparkling Topaze
pp 135-144

12 - “Planes, Motors, Schedules”: Night Flight and the Modernity of John Barrymore
pp 145-156

13 - Barrymore and the Scene of Acting: Gesture, Speech, and the Repression of Cinematic Performance
pp 157-168

14 - “I Never Thought I Should Sink So Low as to Become an Actor”: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century
pp 169-182

15 - Barrymore Does Barrymore: The Performing Self Triumphant in The Great Profile
pp 183-194

Works Cited
pp 195-199

Index
pp 200-203

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