Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema

Sounding out Utopia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvPaul Cuff

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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. Gance’s first sound film, La Fin du Monde (1930), was a critical and financial disaster so great that it nearly destroyed his career.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-11-21
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt488 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor241
Upplaga16001
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319388175

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