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Abel Gance and the End of Silent CinemaIn the Shadow of War

Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema: In the Shadow of War [This chapter details the sequence of projects Gance envisaged during the 1910s and 1920s, concentrating on the ways in which they were informed by the humanitarian disaster of the Great War. Cuff contextualizes Gance’s pacifist political position in relation to controversial writers like Emile Zola, Henri Barbusse, and Richard Grelling. The chapter details the relationship between the finished production of J’accuse! (1919) and the unfinished war trilogy of which it was part, as well as the aborted film Ecce Homo (1918) and the religious trilogy of which it was part. Cuff shows how their ideological concern with cultural reform was the basis for many subsequent projects, and concludes the chapter by evaluating La Roue (1922) and Napoléon (1927) in this post-war context.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Abel Gance and the End of Silent CinemaIn the Shadow of War

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-3-319-38817-5
Pages
5 –20
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-38818-2_1
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter details the sequence of projects Gance envisaged during the 1910s and 1920s, concentrating on the ways in which they were informed by the humanitarian disaster of the Great War. Cuff contextualizes Gance’s pacifist political position in relation to controversial writers like Emile Zola, Henri Barbusse, and Richard Grelling. The chapter details the relationship between the finished production of J’accuse! (1919) and the unfinished war trilogy of which it was part, as well as the aborted film Ecce Homo (1918) and the religious trilogy of which it was part. Cuff shows how their ideological concern with cultural reform was the basis for many subsequent projects, and concludes the chapter by evaluating La Roue (1922) and Napoléon (1927) in this post-war context.]

Published: Nov 12, 2016

Keywords: Exotic Dance; Textual Alteration; Fellow Soldier; Ecce Homo; Insane Asylum

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