Seeing Sarah Bernhardt

Performance and Silent Film (livre en anglais)

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de Victoria Duckett

Type: Etudes
Sujet: Acteur > 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

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Broché • 248 pages
15 x 22,5 cm

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.

À propos de l'auteur :
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.

Revue de Presse :
"Duckett's excellent skills as a researcher and a writer shine through. . . . Seeing Sarah Bernhardt therefore not only adds much needed context and analysis to the performances of the legendary Bernhardt, but it also shows the promise of intermedial research."--Theatre Journal

"Addresses the chasm in criticism between a lionizing of Sarah Bernhardt's stage work on one hand, and the dismissal of her filmed performances on the other."--French Studies

"Conceptually ambitious and highly stimulating."--Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film

"Well written and insightful, this is required reading for those interested in theater, film, or women's studies. . . . Essential."--Choice

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