BackA Revolution for the Screen
Abel Gance's Napoleon (book in English)
by Paul Cuff
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- One Film > Napoleon
- Abel Gance
- Publishing Date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Hardcover • 272 pages • 123 €
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm) - ISBN
- 978-90-8964-734-4
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Book Presentation:
Abel Gance's silent masterpiece, Napoleon, was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, unwilling to deal with its nine-hour running time, subjected it to savage cuts - with devastating results for the movie and for film history. The struggle across ensuing decades to restore and reintegrate Gance's film has formed a backdrop to an array of formal, contextual, and ideological battles. In this book, Paul Cuff takes account of those battles and challenges received opinion on Gance's view of both his film and its subject.
See the publisher website: Amsterdam University Press
> On a related topic:
Abel Gance et la Révolution (2024)
Une histoire du Napoléon
Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (2024)
Collective dir. Frédéric Bonnaud and Joël Daire
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