1st Edition

Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film

By Keri Walsh Copyright 2021
156 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film is the first study dedicated to understanding the work of female Method actors on film. While Method acting on film has typically been associated with the explosive machismo of actors like Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro, this book explores an alternate tradition within the Method—the work that women from the Actors Studio did in Hollywood.... Read more

1. Women and the Method  2. Kim Hunter’s Feminist Method  3. Protest Performances: Actor Rebellion as Feminist Critique  4. Jane Fonda: Method Auteur

Biography

Keri Walsh is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University in New York. She is the author of Mickey Rourke in the BFI Film Stars Series and editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach. In 2018 she was named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.