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Author Duckett, Victoria.

Title Seeing Sarah Bernhardt : performance and silent film / Victoria Duckett.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm).
text file
Series Women and film history international
Women and film history international.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Nullius in verba: acting on silent film -- Hamlet: a short film, 1900 -- Camille: the ladies of the camellias -- Queen Elizabeth: a moving picture, 1912 -- Sarah Bernhardt at home: cinema and the home, ca. 1915 -- Mothers of France: World War I, film, and propaganda -- Conclusion.
Summary "The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film Queen Elizabeth brought her 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." -- Publisher's description
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Subject Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 -- Career in motion pictures.
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923.
Silent films -- France -- History and criticism.
Silent films.
France.
Motion picture industry -- France -- History.
Motion picture industry.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Duckett, Victoria. Seeing Sarah Bernhardt. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015] (DLC) 2015012975
ISBN 9780252097751 (electronic book)
0252097750 (electronic book)
9780252039669 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780252081163 (paperback ; alkaline paper)