Seeing Sarah Bernhardt : performance and silent film /

Duckett, Victoria,

Seeing Sarah Bernhardt : performance and silent film / Victoria Duckett. - 1 online resource (249 pages). - Women and Film History International . - Women and film history international. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nullius in verba: acting on silent film -- Hamlet: a short film, 1900 -- Camille: the ladies of the camellias -- Queen Elizabeth: a moving picture, 1912 -- Sarah Bernhardt at home: cinema and the home, ca. 1915 -- Mothers of France: World War I, film, and propaganda -- Conclusion.

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Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 --Career in motion pictures.


Motion picture industry--History.--France
Silent films--History and criticism.--France


Electronic books.

PN2638.B5 / .D835 2015

792.02/8092