Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate

• Tác giả: Annette Förster
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9089647191
• Thông tin xuất bản: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (573 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 247096
• Chủ đề: 1. Electronic, holographic & video art; 2. Film theory & criticism; 3. The arts: general issues

Tóm tắt

 This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser
  an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and filmmaker Nell Shipman
  an analysis of the interaction between the popular stage and the silent cinema from the perspective of women at work in both realms
  fresh insights into Dutch stage and screen comedy, the French revue and the American Northwest drama of the 1910s
  and much more, all grounded in a wealth of archival research.