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Robert de Niro at Work : From Screenplay to Screen Performance.

By: Ganz, AdamContributor(s): Price, StevenSeries: Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting Ser: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020Copyright date: �2020Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: EBC6387605ISBN: 9783030479602Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Robert de Niro at WorkLOC classification: HM621-HM656Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgments: Robert De Niro at Work -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Bibliography -- 2 The Robert De Niro Archive and the Screenplay as a Boundary Object -- Bringing a Text to Life -- Montage and mise-en-sc�ene -- Marginalia and Commentary -- The Boundary Object and the Screenplay -- Textual Analysis -- The Screenplay as a Material Object -- Part and Whole: The Narrative Construction of Reality -- Materialities -- Stories Told with Pictures -- Bibliography -- 3 Influences and Ideas of Performance -- Early Theories of Film Acting: Walter Benjamin and Siegried Kracauer -- The Actor's Response to Film Technology -- Fine Art Practice and Performance -- Intermediality and Performance -- Adler, Strasberg, Piscator and the 'Method' -- Early Films -- Mean Streets -- The Godfather, Part II -- Bibliography -- 4 Taxi Driver -- Creating a Biography -- The Concessions Girl Scene -- Dreaming of Betsy -- Not a Dumb Job -- Preparation and Projection -- 'A Character like Travis Bickle' -- Bibliography -- 5 The Last Tycoon -- Working with Kazan -- Working with a Literary Text -- The Title Page -- Building a Character -- Stahr's Relationship with Kathleen -- The Boxley Scene -- Bibliography -- 6 Improv(e) -- New York, New York (1977) -- Raging Bull -- The King of Comedy -- Bibliography -- 7 Character -- Character and Calligraphy -- The Untouchables -- Goodfellas -- Bibliography -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Robert De Niro at Work is the first critical study to examine how Robert de Niro, perhaps the finest screen actor of his generation, works with screenplays to imagine, prepare and denote his performance. In categorising the various ways in which De Niro works with a screenplay, this book will re-examine the relationship between actor and text. This book considers the screenplay as above all a working document and a material object, present at every stage of the filmmaking process. The working screenplay goes through various iterations in development and exists in many versions on set, each adapted and personalised for the specific use of the individual and their role. As the archive reveals, nobody works more closely with the script than the actor, and no actor works more on a script than De Niro.

Intro -- Acknowledgments: Robert De Niro at Work -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Bibliography -- 2 The Robert De Niro Archive and the Screenplay as a Boundary Object -- Bringing a Text to Life -- Montage and mise-en-sc�ene -- Marginalia and Commentary -- The Boundary Object and the Screenplay -- Textual Analysis -- The Screenplay as a Material Object -- Part and Whole: The Narrative Construction of Reality -- Materialities -- Stories Told with Pictures -- Bibliography -- 3 Influences and Ideas of Performance -- Early Theories of Film Acting: Walter Benjamin and Siegried Kracauer -- The Actor's Response to Film Technology -- Fine Art Practice and Performance -- Intermediality and Performance -- Adler, Strasberg, Piscator and the 'Method' -- Early Films -- Mean Streets -- The Godfather, Part II -- Bibliography -- 4 Taxi Driver -- Creating a Biography -- The Concessions Girl Scene -- Dreaming of Betsy -- Not a Dumb Job -- Preparation and Projection -- 'A Character like Travis Bickle' -- Bibliography -- 5 The Last Tycoon -- Working with Kazan -- Working with a Literary Text -- The Title Page -- Building a Character -- Stahr's Relationship with Kathleen -- The Boxley Scene -- Bibliography -- 6 Improv(e) -- New York, New York (1977) -- Raging Bull -- The King of Comedy -- Bibliography -- 7 Character -- Character and Calligraphy -- The Untouchables -- Goodfellas -- Bibliography -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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