Name: Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema: Sounding Out Utopia (en Inglés)
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Author: Cuff, Paul
ISBN: 9783319817545

portada Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema: Sounding Out Utopia (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Paul Cuff

Editorial

Palgrave MacMillan

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

241

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.0 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.33 kg.

ISBN13

9783319817545

Categorías

Europa
Historia del cine
Música
Estudios étnicos

Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema: Sounding Out Utopia (en Inglés)

Paul Cuff (Autor) · Palgrave MacMillan · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema: Sounding Out Utopia (en Inglés)"

This book explores the creation and destruction of Abel Gance's most ambitious film project, and seeks to explain why his meteoric career was so nearly extinguished at the end of silent cinema. By 1929, Gance was France's most famous director. Acclaimed for his technical innovation and visual imagination, he was also admonished for the excessive length and expense of his productions. Gance's first sound film, La Fin du Monde (1930), was a critical and financial disaster so great that it nearly destroyed his career. But what went wrong? Gance claimed it was commercial sabotage whilst critics blamed the director's inexperience with new technology. Neither excuse is satisfactory. Based on extensive archival research, this book re-investigates the cultural background and aesthetic consequences of Gance's transition from silent filmmaking to sound cinema. La Fin du Monde is revealed to be only one element of an extraordinary cultural project to transformcinema into a universal religion and propagate its power through the League of Nations. From unfinished films to unrealized social revolutions, the reader is given a fascinating tour of Gance's lost cinematic utopia.