Seeing Sarah Bernhardt
Performance and Silent Film
Seiten
2015
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03966-9 (ISBN)
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03966-9 (ISBN)
The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film Queen Elizabeth vaulted her to international acclaim. The triumph capped her already lengthy involvement with cinema while enabling the indefatigable actress to reinvent herself in an era of technological and generational change. Placing Bernhardt at the center of the industry's first two decades, Victoria Duckett challenges the perception of her as an anachronism unable to appreciate film's qualities. Instead, cinema's substitution of translated title cards for her melodic French deciphered Bernhardt for Anglo-American audiences. It also allowed the aging actress to appear in the kinds of longer dramas she could no longer physically sustain onstage. As Duckett shows, Bernhardt contributed far more than star quality. Her theatrical practice on film influenced how the young medium changed the visual and performing arts. Her promoting of experimentation, meanwhile, shaped the ways audiences looked at and understood early cinema. A leading-edge reappraisal of a watershed era, Seeing Sarah Bernhardt tells the story of an icon who bridged two centuries--and changed the very act of watching film.
Victoria Duckett is a film historian and a lecturer in media studies at Deakin University, Melbourne. She is the coeditor of Researching Women in the Silent Cinema: New Findings and Perspectives.
CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Nullius in Verba: Acting on Silent Film2. Hamlet: A Short Film, 19003. Camille: The Ladies of the Camellias4. Queen Elizabeth: A Moving Picture, 19125. Sarah Bernhardt at Home: Cinema and the Home, ca. 19156. Mothers of France: World War I, Film, and PropagandaConclusionNotesIndex
Reihe/Serie | Women’s Media History Now! |
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Zusatzinfo | 44 black and white photographs |
Verlagsort | Baltimore |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-252-03966-1 / 0252039661 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-03966-9 / 9780252039669 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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