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Women in the Silent Cinema Annette Förster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Förster, Annette (Film historian), author.
- Series:
- Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Framing film / EYE filmmuseum
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shipman, Nell, 1892-1970.
- Musidora.
- Solser, Adriënne, 1873-1943.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Silent films--History and criticism.
- Silent films.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (560 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "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" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- PART I: ADRIËNNE SOLSER THE NETHERLANDS
- Adriënne Solser on the Dutch Popular Stage
- Adriënne Solser and the Dutch Silent Cinema
- PART II: MUSIDORA FRANCE
- Musidora on the French Popular Stage
- Musidora and the French Silent Cinema
- PART III: NELL SHIPMAN NORTH AMERICA
- Nell Shipman on the American Popular Stage
- Nell Shipman and the American Silent Cinema
- In Conclusion
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES
- CAREER OVERVIEWS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-525) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-003-70970-2
- 1-04-077708-2
- 1-04-079007-0
- 90-485-2451-2
- 9781003709701
- OCLC:
- 1163637857
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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