TY  - GEN
T1  - Seeing Sarah Bernhardt : performance and silent film
T2  - Women and film history international.
A1  - Duckett, Victoria
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana ; Chicago
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn918594755
AB  - "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.
CN  - PN2638.B5
SN  - 9780252097751
SN  - 0252097750
SN  - 0252039661
SN  - 9780252039669
SN  - 9780252081163
SN  - 9780252039669 (cloth : alk. paper)
KW  - Bernhardt, Sarah, : 1844-1923.
KW  - Bernhardt, Sarah, : 1844-1923
KW  - Motion picture industry : France : History.
KW  - Silent films : France : History and criticism.
KW  - Cinéma : Industrie : France : Histoire.
KW  - Films muets : France : Histoire et critique.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Theater : General.
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Silent films
KW  - France
KW  - Drama.
KW  - Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -