Albert Capellani : pioneer of the silent screen
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Albert Capellani : pioneer of the silent screen
（Screen classics）
University Press of Kentucky, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178) and index
Includes filmography
収録内容
- Introduction
- From the Marais to the Batignolles
- From Vincennes to the Alhambra
- Pathé
- The Société Cinématographique des Auteurs et Gens de Lettres
- Les misérables
- Filmmaker
- End of reel
- On the front line
- Going or staying
- The visualizer of Les misérables
- World Film Corporation
- Woman's director
- Transition at mutual
- Metro director
- The red lantern
- Albert Capellani Productions, Inc
- Cosmopolitan productions
- Back home
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内容説明
In recent years, technology has given films of the silent era and their creators a second life as new processes have eased their restoration and distribution. Among the films benefitting from these developments are the works of director Albert Capellani (1874--1931), whose oeuvre was instrumental in the development of cinema in the early 1900s and whose contributions rival those of D. W. Griffith.
For the first time in English, Christine Leteux's essential biography of Capellani offers a detailed assessment of the groundbreaking director. Capellani began his career in France at what was, at the time, the biggest film company in the world: Pathe. There, he directed the first multireel version of Les Miserables in 1912 as well as his masterpiece, Germinal (1913). After immigrating to the United States, Capellani worked at a number of production houses, including Metro Pictures Corporation, where he produced his two best-known films, The House of Mirth (1918) and The Red Lantern (1919). He was well known for making stage actors into movie stars, and Mistinguett, Stacia Napierkowska, and Alla Nazimova all rose to prominence under his direction.
The ups and downs of Capellani's career paralleled the evolution of the film industry and demonstrated the fickle nature of success. His technical and aesthetic achievements, however, paved the way for future filmmakers. Featuring a foreword by Academy Award--winning film historian Kevin Brownlow, Leteux's intimate biography paints a fascinating portrait of one of the leading pioneers of early cinema and provides a new window into the origins of the moving picture.
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