ABSTRACT
The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star investigates the contemporary film actress both as an artist and as an ideological construct. Divided into two sections, The Actress first examines the major issues in studying film acting, stardom, and the Hollywood actress. Combining theories of screen acting and of film stardom, The Actress presents a synthesis of methodologies and offers the student and scholar a new approach to these two subjects of study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Acting, Stardom, and the Hollywood Actress
chapter |24 pages
Th e Hollywood Star–Actress and Studies of Acting
chapter |20 pages
Th e Hollywood Star–Actress and Studies of Stardom
chapter |22 pages
Star Acting and the Hollywood Star–Actress
part |2 pages
Part II Case Studies of Contemporary Star–Actresses