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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Juli 2018
Genre:	Architektur, Archäologie, Kunst
	B / Civilization—History / Cultural History / Cultural Studies / Ethnology—Europe / Europe / European Culture / Film and Television Studies / Literature, Cultural and Media Studies / Motion pictures and television / Music / Screen Studies / Social & cultural history / Social and cultural history
ISBN:	9783319817545
EAN-Code:	9783319817545
Verlag:	Springer Nature EN
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 210 mm / B 148 mm / D
Gewicht:	364 gr
Seiten:	241
Illustration:	XXXII, 241 p. 21 illus., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
Zus. Info:	Previously published in hardcover
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Inhalt:

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. By 1929, Gance was France's most famous director. Acclaimed for his technical innovation and visual imagination, he was also admonished for the excessive length and expense of his productions. Gance's first sound film, La Fin du Monde (1930), was a critical and financial disaster so great that it nearly destroyed his career. But what went wrong? Gance claimed it was commercial sabotage whilst critics blamed the director's inexperience with new technology. Neither excuse is satisfactory. Based on extensive archival research, this book re-investigates the cultural background and aesthetic consequences of Gance's transition from silent filmmaking to sound cinema. La Fin du Monde is revealed to be only one element of an extraordinary cultural project to transformcinema into a universal religion and propagate its power through the League of Nations. From unfinished films to unrealized social revolutions, the reader is given a fascinating tour of Gance's lost cinematic utopia.