Article: Screen Couple Chemistry: the Power of 2.(Book Review)

by Martha P. Nochimson. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002. 416pp., illus. Hardcover: $65.00 and Paperback: $27.95.

First off, this book is not really about screen chemistry--thankfully. An exclusive examination of such an abstract and elusive phenomenon would likely be doomed from the get-go. Surely that's why, for all the talk about costar chemistry, only one "serious book-length study" precedes Nochimson on this front, Virginia Wright Wexman's Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance. That both books focus exclusively on Hollywood productions reveals the degree to which screen chemistry is significantly dependent--if not for its ...

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