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Naturalist and Classical Styles in Early Sound Film Acting
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 43, Number 3, Spring 2004
- pp. 3-17
- 10.1353/cj.2004.0023
- Article
- Additional Information
Acting conventions entail specific ideas about emotions and their capacity to move the spectator. By combining a historical and a theoretical approach, this essay examines the sources and functions of expressiveness in acting in the early sound film period.