Cary Grant: Acting style and genre in classical Hollywood cinema

Glitre, Kathrina

Abstract

This is part of a larger project on Cary Grant and film acting. This particular essay focuses on the relationships between acting style, genre and star persona, using close textual analysis alongside archival research and industrial contextualisation. Rather than assuming film acting may involve ‘genre-specific rules’ (de Cordova 1986), the essay recognizes genres are always inherently mixed and hybrid; the analysis demonstrates a continuum of strategies in Grant’s acting style across three films ostensibly from different genres.

• Publication Date: Aug 1, 2012
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Acting in Moving-Image Culture: Bodies, Screens, and Renderings
• ISBN: 9783837616484
• Keywords: Cary Grant, genre, acting, performance, Hollywood, stars
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/945113
• Publisher URL: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1648/ts1648.php