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Character and the star vehicle: The impact of casting Cary Grant (2019)
Book Chapter
Glitre, K. (2019). Character and the star vehicle: The impact of casting Cary Grant. In J. Riis, & A. Taylor (Eds.), Screening Characters: Theories of Character in Film, Television, and Interactive Media (37-54). New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429422508

Star vehicles provide a concrete way of exploring how creative and commercial factors affected the development of screen characters in classical Hollywood cinema. The chapter explores how casting, screenwriting and performance shaped the adaptation o... Read More about Character and the star vehicle: The impact of casting Cary Grant.