Seeing Sarah Bernhardt

Performance and Silent Film (livre en anglais)

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de Victoria Duckett

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Actrice > Sarah Bernhardt

Mots Clés

Sarah Bernhardt, cinéma muet, actrice

Année d'édition

2015

Editeur

University of Illinois Press

Collection

Women's Media History Now

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 248 pages • 37 €
15 x 22,5 cm
Egalement disponible en format eBook.

ISBN

978-0-252-08116-3

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Description de l'ouvrage :
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.

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