Silent Film Performance: Dramatic Bodies on Screen

by Elisabetta Girelli

Book Overview

This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of silent film performance. It combines close reading of silent screen acting with theoretically informed analysis, stressing the overlap between different performative arts, such as film and stage acting, dance, mime, and pantomime. The boundary between silent and sound films is also challenged. Anna Pavlova's acting in The Dumb Girl of Portici is read through Freud's work on the uncanny,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030751023
• ISBN13: 9783030751029
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"