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Seeing Sarah Bernhardt

Performance and Silent Film (book in English)

by Victoria Duckett

Type
Studies
Subject
ActorSarah Bernhardt
Keywords
Sarah Bernhardt, silent cinema, actress
Publishing Date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Collection
Women's Media History Now
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Paperback • 248 pages • 37 €
6 x 8 ¾ inches (15 x 22.5 cm)
Also available as an eBook.
ISBN
978-0-252-08116-3
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Book Presentation:
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.

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