The Silent Muse

Author : Asta Nielsen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 9781640141261

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The Silent Muse by Asta Nielsen Pdf

The memoirs of the pioneering Danish silent film star Asta Nielsen in English translation for the first time, with scholarly introduction and annotations. From her explosive screen debut in The Abyss (1910) through her "scandalous" fourth marriage at age 89, the Danish actress Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) was a darling of fans and the press, a global star without parallel in the silent era. So famous in Germany that she was known simply as "die Asta," during her two decades of active filmmaking Nielsen also published about her career, her impoverished childhood, her breakthrough into film, the price of fame, and her interactions with the German film industry. In 1938 Nielsen returned to Denmark, where she published her memoirs in two volumes in 1945-46, expanding on her earlier writings. This carefully crafted, colorful text offers eyewitness insights into early European film, Nielsen's star persona, and the challenges of stardom in Germany in the tumultuous period before World War II. Yet although they have appeared in multiple Danish, German, and Russian editions, the memoirs have never been published in English until now. Nielsen's work has enduring value for transnational film history, and the recent growth of interest in women's contributions to early film makes the time ripe for this translation. Julie K. Allen accompanies the text with a scholarly introduction and annotations, and a foreword by leading early film scholar Jennifer M. Bean frames the volume.

Author : Rachel Pink
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781982238537

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Silent Muse by Rachel Pink Pdf

I am a Goddess I shine and exude light I struggle with my supreme existence. I am tested As all goddesses are I am shown the way the way through struggle. I've been pained in many ways bound, chastised, ridiculed and demonized And I stand here Edged on a precipice Scared beyond my wits.......

Author : Ariele Tee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781669827931

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Silent Muse Poetry by Ariele Tee Pdf

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Author : Ariele Tee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781664146198

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Silent Muse Poetry by Ariele Tee Pdf

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Author : Ariele Tee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781796053135

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Silent Muse Poetry by Ariele Tee Pdf

A message to you, from me. to those of you hurting, without a voice to keep. a collection of pretty things, and spoken word poetry

Author : Ariele Tee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781984583598

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Silent Muse Poetry by Ariele Tee Pdf

A message to you, from me. to those of you hurting, without a voice to keep. a collection of pretty things, and spoken word poetry

Author : Ariele Tee
Publisher : Xlibris Us
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1664123407

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Silent Muse Poetry by Ariele Tee Pdf

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Author : Ariele Tee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781543498295

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Silent Muse Poetry by Ariele Tee Pdf

Virgo Sun Gemini Moon Cancer Venus

Author : Dacia Maraini
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558617834

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The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini Pdf

The stunning English translation of the International Man Booker Prize Finalist novel hailed as “a story of grace and endurance, not mere survival” (The New York Times Book Review). Winner of the Premio Campiello, short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award, and published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages, this “spellbinding” historical novel by one of Italy’s premier authors is now available in this luminous new translation (Booklist). In early 18th century Sicily, noblewoman Marianna Ucrìa is trapped in a world of silence after a terrible childhood trauma left her deaf and mute. Married off to a lecherous uncle, she struggles to educate and elevate herself against all convention—and find her true place in a world that sees her as little more than property. In language that conveys the keen vision and deep human insight possessed by her protagonist, Dacia Maraini captures the splendor and the corruption of Marianna’s world, as well as the strength of her unbreakable spirit, in “one of those rare, rich, deep, strange novels that create a world so fantastic and so real you want to start reading it again as soon as you come to the last page” (Newsday).

Author : Annette Förster
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048524518

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Women in the Silent Cinema by Annette Förster Pdf

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.

Author : Robert F. Panara,Taras B. Denis,John Harvie McFarlane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B111154

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The Silent Muse by Robert F. Panara,Taras B. Denis,John Harvie McFarlane Pdf

Author : Kristen Anderson Wagner
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814341032

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Comic Venus by Kristen Anderson Wagner Pdf

For many people the term “silent comedy” conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, Buster Keaton’s Stoneface, or Harold Lloyd hanging precariously from the side of a skyscraper. Even people who have never seen a silent film can recognize these comedians at a glance. But what about the female comedians? Gale Henry, Louise Fazenda, Colleen Moore, Constance Talmadge—these and numerous others were wildly popular during the silent film era, appearing in countless motion pictures and earning top salaries, and yet, their names have been almost entirely forgotten. As a consequence, recovering their history is all the more compelling given that they laid the foundation for generations of funny women, from Lucille Ball to Carol Burnett to Tina Fey. These women constitute an essential and neglected sector of film history, reflecting a turning point in women’s social and political history. Their talent and brave spirit continues to be felt today, and Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film seeks to provide a better understanding of women’s experiences in the early twentieth century, and to better understand and appreciate the unruly and boundary-breaking women who have followed. The diversity and breadth of archival materials explored in Comic Venus illuminate the social and historical period of comediennes and silent film. In four sections, Kristen Anderson Wagner enumerates the relationship between women and comedy, beginning with the question of why historically women weren’t seen as funny or couldn’t possibly be funny in the public and male eye, a question that persists even today. Wagner delves into the idea of women’s “delicate sensibilities,” which presumably prevented them from being funny, and in chapter two traces ideas about feminine beauty and what a woman should express versus what these comedic women did express, as Wagner notes, “comediennes challenged the assumption that beauty was a fundamental component of ideal femininity.” In chapter three, Wagner discusses how comediennes such as Clara Bow, Marie Dressler, and Colleen Moore used humor to gain recognition and power through performances of sexuality and desire. Women comedians presented “sexuality as fun and playful, suggesting that personal relationships could be fluid rather than stable.” Chapter four examines silent comediennes’ relationships to the modern world and argues that these women exemplified modernity and new womanhood. The final chapter of Comic Venus brings readers to understand comediennes and their impact on silent-era cinema, as well as their lasting influence on later generations of funny women. Comic Venus is the first book to explore the overlooked contributions made by comediennes in American silent film. Those with a taste for film and representations of femininity in comedy will be fascinated by the analytical connections and thoroughly researched histories of these women and their groundbreaking movements in comedy and stage.

Author : Bernard Perron
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780472051625

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Silent Hill by Bernard Perron Pdf

The second entry in the Landmark Video Games series

Author : Joanne Bernardi
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814329616

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Writing in Light by Joanne Bernardi Pdf

While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan's cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan's "pure film movement" of the 1910s is widely held to mark the birth of film theory as we know it and is a touchstone for historians of early cinema. Yet this work has been difficult to access because so few prints have been preserved. Joanne Bernardi offers the first book-length study of this important era, recovering a body of lost film and establishing its significance in the development of Japanese cinema. Building on a wealth of original-language sources-much of it translated here for the first time-she examines how the movement challenged the industry's dependence on pre-existing stage repertories, preference for lecturers of intertitles, and the use of female impersonators. Bernardi provides in-depth analysis of key scripts-The Glory of Life, A Father's Tears, Amateur Club, and The Lust of the White Serpent-and includes translations in an appendix. These films offer case studies for understanding the craft of screenwriting during the silent era and shed light on such issues as genre, authorship and control, and gender representation. Writing in Light helps fill important gaps in the history of Japanese silent cinema. By identifying points at which "pure film" discourse merges with changing international trends and attitudes toward film, it offers an important resource for film, literary, and cultural historians.

Author : Emily Grosholz,Terese Coe,Frederick Wilbur,Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher : Able Muse Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781773490076

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Able Muse, Summer 2017 (No. 23 - print edition) by Emily Grosholz,Terese Coe,Frederick Wilbur,Catharine Savage Brosman Pdf