Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic

by Murray Pomerance

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501350676
• ISBN13: 9781501350672
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"