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The End or “End” of Virtuosic Performance

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...There are several ways in which one can speak of an “end” of virtuosity. Who is it for, for example? To whom is it addressed? And for what purpose? The virtuosic moment having inherent excitement and grandeur, it will gain esteem for those...

(In)credible Belief

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...In Sydney Pollack’s Tootsie (1982), Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) is a too-outspoken actor who cannot get work until he disguises himself as a woman. As “Dorothy Michaels” he lands a character part on a popular soap opera and soon becomes...

The Spectacle of Things Falling Apart

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...On stage the virtuosic “cadenza” is vulnerable to collapse for notable physical reasons. The presence of actors in the same physical domain as their audience, notwithstanding that the fiction of a divided space is typically maintained...

Collapse

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Since it occurs in a real world the virtuosic turn is subject to collapse through a sort of eruption in which the unperformed physical self seeps uncontrollably through the envelope of the characterization, this with ultimately destructive...

Director/Virtuoso

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Rouben Mamoulian’s The Mark of Zorro (1940) contains a bizarre little scene:Basil Rathbone (l.) and J. Edward Bromberg in The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian, Twentieth Century Fox, 1940). Digital frame enlargement.Don Luis Quintero (J...

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Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Here is philosopher of art Denis Dutton on the special skill required for, and displayed in, virtuosic performance:Jean-Louis Barrault in Les enfants du paradis [Children of Paradise] (Marcel Carné, Pathé, 1945). Digital frame...

The Eternal Return

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Every takeoff must have a landing. What goes up must come down.Robin Williams in Hook (Steven Spielberg, Amblin/TriStar, 1991). Digital frame enlargement.The problem in finishing off a virtuosic moment—without a finish...

Virtuosity Pianissimo Virtuosity Forte

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...It is one thing to say that virtuosity might fully escape notice. But that it might require special, even delicate, attention because it is constructed to be very quiet, is something else. “Pianissimo virtuosity” involves gestures of great...

Indelibles

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Memory fuels perception. We often say a performance or performative moment is unforgettable, that it has made an indelible impact or has had an indelible effect on the way we see film. It would be difficult to watch Citizen Kane (1941...

Limping On

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Mike’s sexual peccadillo with Lesley in Birdman is especially disturbing in being visible to strangers. He has no hope of a virtuosic moment, but Edward Norton is virtuosic in showing us Mike’s inability to recover, expressly by recovering....