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A Revolution for the Screen : Abel Gance's Napoleon /

Abel Gance's silent masterpiece, 'Napoleon', was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, unwilling to deal with its nine-hour running time, subjected it to savage cuts - with devastating results for the movie and for film histo...

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Autor principal: Cuff, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface: Critical perspective -- 1. Napoleonic ambition and historical imagination -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Messiahs of the nineteenth century -- 1.3 Towards a new era -- 1.4 Cinema and the Napoleonic project -- 1.5 Historiography as ritual -- 1.6 Summary -- 2. Shaping expectations: The young Napoleon Bonaparte -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Cinema as experiential art -- 2.3 Multiplying perspective -- 2.4 Father to the man -- 2.5 Invoking the future -- 2.6 Iconic isolation -- 2.7 Summary -- 3. Civilization and savagery: Visions of the French Revolution -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Reasoning with chaos -- 3.3 Community and spectatorship -- 3.4 Fire and phoenix -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Mortal gods: Voices of power and of providence -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Communicating authority -- 4.3 Chaos and providence -- 4.4 Orchestrating murder -- 4.5 The rhetoric of the Terror -- 4.6 Summary -- 5. The dark light of Napoleonic cinema -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 'Bonaparte' and 'Napoleon' -- 5.3 Visual antitheses -- 5.4 Inheritance -- 5.5 The expansion of visual language -- 5.6 Summary -- 6. A view from the margins of history -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Oblivion and remembrance -- 6.3 Parallel lives -- 6.4 Documentation and survival -- 6.5 Forlorn recognition -- 6.6 Summary -- 7. Melodrama and the formulations of family -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Incomplete families -- 7.3 Fate and fortune -- 7.4 Flirtation and observation -- 7.5 Negotiating the future -- 7.6 Love and war -- 7.7 Summary -- 8. Worlds in transition: Class, consumption, corruption -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Corrupting powers -- 8.3 New femininities -- 8.4 The Victims' Ball -- 8.5 Summary -- 9. Death and transfiguration -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 From history to legend -- 9.3 From individualism to universalism -- 9.4 Summary. 
505 0 |a Conclusion: The case for enthusiasm -- Filmography and bibliography -- Index -- List of illustrations -- Note on formatting. 
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