Foreword: end without end / Antonio Attisani -- Introduction. Eleonora Duse and the fall of the European tradition of acting: an historical overview / Giuliano Campo -- Verga and Duse: before Cenere / Enza de Francisci -- Duse and the Stanislavsky system of acting / Sharon Marie Carnicke -- Duse recorded / Paul Fryer -- Duende has no age / Maria Pia Pagani -- The work of the actor Febo Mari / Francesca Brignoli -- "L'art du silence! la fièvre au coeur, depuis cette offre de Griffith, je n'ai rêve que des films": Cenere through Duse's letters to her daughter Enrichetta / Maria Ida Biggi -- Cenere: a selected annotated bibliography and mediagraphy / Nuccio Lodato.
Summary:
"This collection of essays brings together for the first time in English a range of scholarship on Duse's only film performance. The difficulties involved in the making of Cenere are explored. Her work is discussed within the creative, political and historical context of the silent movie industry as it developed in wartime Italy. "-- Provided by publisher.
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