Cinema muto / Jesse Lee Kercheval.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kercheval, Jesse Lee.

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silent films--Poetry.

Silent films.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In "Cinema Muto," Jesse Lee Kercheval examines the enduring themes of time, mortality, and love as revealed through the power of silent film. Following the ten days of the annual "Le Giornate del Cinema Muto" in Italy, this collection of ekphrastic poems are love letters to the evocative power of silent cinema. Kercheval s poems elegantly capture the allure of these rare films, which compel hundreds of pilgrims from around the world from scholars and archivists, to artists and connoisseurs to flock to Italy each autumn. "Cinema Muto" celebrates the flickering tales of madness and adventure, drama and love, which are all too often left to decay within forgotten vaults. As reels of Mosjoukine and D. W. Griffith float throughout the collection, a portrait also emerges of the simple beauty of Italy in October and of two lovers who are drawn together by their mutual passion for an extinct art. Together they revel in recapturing the black and white gestures of a lost world. "Cinema Muto" is a tender tribute to the brief yet unforgettable reign of silent film. Brimming with stirring images of dreams, desire, and the ghosts of cinema legends gone by, Kercheval s verse is a testament to the mute beauty and timeless lessons that may still be discovered in a fragile roll of celluloid. "

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Act I

Saving Silence

My Husband-Lover of Silent Movies-Attends Le Giornate del Cinema Muto

The Adventures of Billy

silent night

Kurutta Ippeiji: A Page of Madness

Last year, you were in Italy

The Dark That Is Not Sleeping

Familiarity, My Husband

Voyage Autour D'Une Etoile

Kohitsuji: The Lamb

Italy, October

Ein Werktag

Byzantium

I Due Sogni Ad Occhi Aperti: Two Dreams with Eyes Wide Open

This is not a silent movie-there is music

Act II

Mosjoukine in Exile

Act III

Before the Movie

Fragments from Le Mogli e le Arance: Wives and Oranges

Le Canard, c. 1925?

Tusalava

La Vocation D'André Carel: The Vocation of André Carel

L'Hirondelle et la Mesange

Germinal

Visage D'Enfants

from the last century

D. W. Griffith, December, 1911

The Acting Career of Charles H. West Considered as Bad Karma

film history as train wreck

Imagine God as a Camera

Goodnight Silents

Keeper of Light

Film Upon Film

Bang

The Projector

Notes

Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-13890-1

9786613808202

0-8093-8645-3

OCLC:

806033024