Article:
Screen decorum: Silent Hollywood and neoclassical concepts of acting

dc.creatorGalili, Doron
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-12T09:33:13Z
dc.date.available2022-07-12T09:33:13Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis article revisits the debates around the notion of ‘classical Hollywood cinema’ in order to call attention to how various traits of neoclassical aesthetics characterised discourses on film acting in American cinema of the silent era. Drawing on a host of film acting manuals, how-to guidebooks, magazine advice columns, and interviews with actors from the 1910s and 1920s, the article demonstrates that besides film’s indebtedness to melodrama, pantomime, and other contemporary theatrical practices, variants of neoclassical aesthetic ideas came to play an important role in informing how silent-era Hollywood reflected on ideal forms of screen acting. By placing the early discussions on silent film acting in the context of the American renewed interest in the classics during the early twentieth century, the article makes a case for the importance of classical ideas in Hollywood cinema, alongside – and indeed often in conflict with – the prominent demand for realism.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18821
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/sound-and-the-audiovisual-essay-part-2-the-theory-history-and-practice-of-film-sound-and-music-in-videographic-criticism/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/19971
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.place
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectfilm actingen
dc.subjecttheateren
dc.subjectneoclassicismen
dc.subjectclassical cinema performanceen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleScreen decorum: Silent Hollywood and neoclassical concepts of actingen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-07-12T12:22:09
local.source.epage301
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitle#Rumors
local.source.spage285
local.source.volume11

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