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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.

Motion picture industry --- Silent films --- Cinéma --- Films muets --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Bernhardt, Sarah, --- Career in motion pictures. --- Bernhardt, Sarah --- Cinéma --- Moving pictures, Silent --- Silent motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Bernar, Sara, --- Bernhardt, Rosine Bernard Damala, --- בערנארד, שרה --- ברנאר, שרה --- Beṛnarě, Saṛa, --- Bernard, Henriette-Rosine, --- Divine Sarah

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77.041 --- CDL --- Bernhardt, Sarah, --- Bernar, Sara, --- Bernhardt, Rosine Bernard Damala, --- בערנארד, שרה --- ברנאר, שרה --- Beṛnarě, Saṛa, --- Bernard, Henriette-Rosine, --- Divine Sarah --- Theatre --- XIXth-XXth centuries --- Biography --- Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) --- Théâtre français --- Actrices --- 19e siècle --- France --- Histoire et critique --- Biographies

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This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history, asking in many different and complementary ways what makes performance meaningful, how it reflects a director's style, as well as how it contributes to the development of national cinemas and cultures. Whether noting the precise ways actors shape film narrative, achieve emotional effect, or move toward political subversion, the essays in these books innovate new approaches to studying screen performance as an art form and cultural force. This second volume focuses on international cinema, and includes case studies of key performances.

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