Silent film performance : dramatic bodies on screen / Elisabetta Girelli.
This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of silent film performance. It combines close reading of silent screen acting with theoretically informed analysis, stressing the overlap between different performative arts, such as film and stage acting, dance, mime, and pantomime. The boundary betwe...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Sign of the Uncanny: Anna Pavlova in The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916, USA)
- Chapter 3: Performing Loneliness: Vladimir Mayakovsky's Silent Soliloquy in Baryshnya i Khuligan / The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918, USSR)
- Chapter 4: Re-booting the Self: Ivan Mozzhukhin and Queer Failure in Feu Mathias Pascal / The Late Mathias Pascal (1926, France)
- Chapter 5: 'Our Bravest and Most Beautiful Soldier': Pola Negri, Wartime, and the Gendering of Anxiety in Hotel Imperial (1927, USA)
- Chapter 6: Silent Performance Beyond Silent Film: Harald Kreutzberg in Paracelsus (1943, Germany)
- Index.