Robert de Niro at Work : From Screenplay to Screen Performance.
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- Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting Ser. .
- Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting Ser. .
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.