Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes): Centennial Essays

by Maria Pia Pagani (Editor), Paul Fryer (Editor)

Overview

The 1916 silent film Cenere (Ashes) features the great Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) in her only cinematic role. In her meditative approach to her craft, she reprised for the screen all the "mother roles" she had created for the theater.

Marking the film's 100th anniversary, this collection of essays brings together for the first time in English a range of scholarship. The difficulties involved in the making of the film are explored--Duse's perfectionism was too advanced for the Italian movie industry of the 1910s. Her work is discussed within the creative, political and historical context of the silent movie industry as it developed in wartime Italy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476663753
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	05/30/2017
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Maria Pia Pagani is an adjunct professor of theatrical literature, art of directing and theatre discipline at the University of Pavia (Italy). She has written many essays—in Italian, English, Russian—about Duse. She is a member of the Pen Club International and the managing editor for Italy in “The Theatre Times,” a portal for global theatre news. Paul Fryer is an academic, author, editor and researcher, based in Kent (UK). He has lectured and presented film screenings internationally and is a visiting professor at the Universities of Leeds, London South Bank and East London.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword: End Without
Antonio Attisani
Introduction
Eleonora Duse and the Fall of the European Tradition of Acting:
An Historical Overview (Giuliano Campo)
Verga and Duse: Before Cenere (Enza De Francisci)
Duse and the Stanislavsky System of Acting (Sharon Marie Carnicke)
Duse Recorded (Paul Fryer)
Duende Has No Age (Maria Pia Pagani)
The Work of the Actor Febo Mari (Francesca Brignoli)
“L’art du silence! La fièvre au cœur, depuis cette offre de Griffith,
je n’ai rêvé que des films”: Cenere through Duse’s Letters
to Her Daughter Enrichetta Maria (Ida Bigg) i127
Cenere: A Selected Annotated Bibliography and Mediagraphy (Nuccio Lodato)
Appendix A. Grazia Deledda: From Cenere to the Nobel Prize, Nobel Award Presentation Speech by Henrick Schück, December 10, 1927
Appendix B. Grazia Deladda, Voice of Sardinia: The First Italian
Woman to Receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (Anders Hallengren)
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index