Gestures of Love: Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema

by Steven Rybin

Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point for closely analyzing the performance of love in movies. Written with a thoughtful adoration for the actors who move us, Steven Rybin examines several of cinema's most beloved on-screen movie couples, including Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and William Powell, Carole Lombard and John Barrymore, Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438465521
• ISBN13: 9781438465524
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"