Silent film performance : dramatic bodies on screen / Elisabetta Girelli.
Girelli, Elisabetta, author.
2021
PN1995.9.A26
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Title Silent film performance : dramatic bodies on screen / Elisabetta Girelli.
Author Girelli, Elisabetta, author.
ISBN 9783030751036 (electronic bk.)
3030751031 (electronic bk.)
9783030751029 (print)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75103-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 112 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-75103-6 doi
Call Number PN1995.9.A26
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43028
Summary 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 between silent and sound films is also challenged. Anna Pavlova's acting in The Dumb Girl of Portici is read through Freud's work on the uncanny, disability studies, and notions of intermediality. Vladimir Mayakovsky's performance in The Young Lady and the Hooligan is approached as a silent soliloquy and a representation of loneliness. Ivan Mozzhukhin's tour de force in The Late Mathias Pascal is discussed through a queer failure lens, while Pola Negri's presence in Hotel Imperial is analysed with the aid of texts on wartime anxiety. Harald Kreutzberg's stunning number in Paracelsus is examined in the light of theories of mime and pantomime, arguing for its subversive potential in a Third Reich sound film.
Note Includes index.
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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.

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