| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index. |
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Includes filmography. |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; CHAPTER 1 A short life; CHAPTER 2 Stardom in the 1920s; CHAPTER 3 Beginnings; CHAPTER 4 Historical reconstructions; CHAPTER 5 The lover; CHAPTER 6 Comedy: Les Deux Timides (December 1928); CHAPTER 7 Parody and the avant-garde: Un Chien andalou (June 1929); CHAPTER 8 Un Chien andalou: Parodying Stardom; CHAPTER 9 Looking back; CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: uncanny bodies; Appendices; Filmography; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book is the first major study of a French silent cinema star. It focuses on Pierre Batcheff, a prominent popular cinema star in the 1920s, the French Valentino, best-known to modern audiences for his role as the protagonist of the avant-garde film classic Un chien andalou. Unlike other stars, he was linked to intellectual circles, especially the Surrealists. The book places Batcheff in the context of 1920s popular cinema, with specific reference to male stars of the period. It analyses the tensions he exemplifies between the?popular? and the?intellectual? during the 1920s, as cinema - t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Batcheff, Pierre, 1901-1932.
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Batcheff, Pierre, 1901-1932. |
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Batcheff, Pierre, 1901-1932. |
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- France.
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Motion picture actors and actresses. |
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France. |
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Silent films -- France -- History and criticism.
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Silent films. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rebillard, Éric.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Powrie, Phil. Pierre Batcheff and stardom in 1920s French cinema. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 9780748621972 0748621970 (OCoLC)268799235 |
| ISBN |
9780748629602 (electronic book) |
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0748629602 (electronic book) |
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9780748621972 |
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0748621970 |
| Standard No. |
9786612059032 |
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