• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes): Centennial Essays

Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes): Centennial Essays

Paperback

TelevisionFilm StudiesGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 1476663750
ISBN13: 9781476663753
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: May 30 2017
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

Also in

Film Studies