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Torturous Etiquettes: Film Performance and Social Form

Torturous Etiquettes: Film Performance and Social Form

Varndell, Daniel

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1438493509
ISBN13: 9781438493503
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2024
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Explores the torture of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema.

Etiquette, as noted toastmaster Herbert V. Prochnow once pointed out, is knowing how to yawn with your mouth closed-that is, to spare the feelings of the other person, one must stifle one's own. To be polite, therefore, is to perform. Onscreen, closeups often reveal the effort that goes into maintaining that performance: with a fleeting frown or a slight scowl, an actor reveals the torture of mannered behavior. In Torturous Etiquettes, Daniel Varndell examines such gestures to reveal the difficulties of the social encounter. Drawing on the history of etiquette, the book deconstructs an array of examples from classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema, taking a close look at onscreen representations of rudeness, ridiculing, racist and sexist etiquettes, hospitality, table manners, and more. In doing so, it reveals etiquette to be a persistent theme in cinema and questions the role it plays in either upholding or denying the basic humanity of others.

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