Celeste Holm Syndrome Celeste Holm Syndrome

Celeste Holm Syndrome

On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age

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Publisher Description

Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

In this essay collection David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser known, from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Veering through considerations of melancholy and wit, sexuality and gender, and the surrealism of comedies of the self in an uncanny world, mixed with his own autobiographical reflections of cinephilia, Lazar creates an alluring hybrid of essay forms as he moves through the movies in his mind. Character actors from the classical era of the 1930s through the 1950s including Thelma Ritter, Oscar Levant, Martin Balsam, Nina Foch, Elizabeth Wilson, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, and the eponymous Celeste Holm all make appearances in these considerations of how essential character actors were, and remain, to cinema.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2020
October 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
186
Pages
PUBLISHER
Nebraska
SELLER
The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
SIZE
1.8
MB

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