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A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction. What We Talk about When We Talk about the Method
  • Chapter 1. Methodists and Method-ists: Primordial Ideas of Methodness
  • Chapter 2. Acting a Foil: John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and the Othering of Methodness
  • Chapter 3. James Dean’s Story: Posthumous Reception and Methodness Memorialized
  • Chapter 4. History in Hysteria: John Garfield and the Limits of Methodness
  • Chapter 5. Illogical Tomatoes to Inscrutable Feats: Methodness to the Present
  • Conclusion. Facing a Future Methodness
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 06/02/2024
      ISBN13: 9781477328507, 978-1477328507
      ISBN10: 1477328505
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction. What We Talk about When We Talk about the Method
      • Chapter 1. Methodists and Method-ists: Primordial Ideas of Methodness
      • Chapter 2. Acting a Foil: John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and the Othering of Methodness
      • Chapter 3. James Dean’s Story: Posthumous Reception and Methodness Memorialized
      • Chapter 4. History in Hysteria: John Garfield and the Limits of Methodness
      • Chapter 5. Illogical Tomatoes to Inscrutable Feats: Methodness to the Present
      • Conclusion. Facing a Future Methodness
      • Acknowledgments
      • Notes
      • Selected Bibliography
      • Index

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