Acting for the silent screen : Film actors and aspiration between the wars / Chris O'Rourke.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Rourke, Chris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2017.
Series:Cinema and society.
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505 0 |a Author Bio; Endorsement; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; General editor's introduction; Introduction: Winifred Hopcroft's story; The 'craze' for film acting; Film acting and the British silent cinema; Participation and self-improvement; Exploiting ambition; 1 In and out of the studio: The silent film actor in Britain; Acting for a living; Actors in the early cinema; Picture personalities and crowd players; Working conditions; Stage and screen: Clive Brook and Brian Aherne; A 'nice' job for girls: Mabel Poulton and Chili Bouchier. 
505 8 |a 2 Learn to act for the cinema in your own home: Instructional guides to film actingSilent cinema and participation; How to become a film artiste; Stage experience not essential; Screen types; Speech, gesture and movement; The art of facial expression; An imaginary camera in your sitting room; A cheap course of star study; 3 The common round: Finding film work in interwar London; Waiting rooms; Cinema schools; Girls who haunt Filmland; The most troublesome woman in London; Schools for the screen-struck?; 4 Stand forth, Mary Pickford the second! Searching for British stars. 
505 8 |a Fan magazine readers get their chanceNewspaper contests; Cinemagazine beauties; A protégée for Norma Talmadge; Friday night is Amami night; Cinderella of the films: Margaret Leahy; Epilogue: From silence to sound; Notes; Introduction: Winifred Hopcroft's story; 1. In and out of the studio: The silent film actor in Britain; 2. Learn to act for the cinema in your own home: Instructional guides to film acting; 3. The common round: Finding film work in interwar London; 4. Stand forth, Mary Pickford the second! Searching for British stars; Epilogue: From silence to sound; Select filmography. 
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