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Albert Capellani - Pioneer of the Silent Screen (Hardcover)
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Albert Capellani - Pioneer of the Silent Screen (Hardcover)
Series: Screen Classics
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In recent years, technology has given films of the silent era and
their creators a second life as new processes have eased their
restoration and distribution. Among the films benefitting from
these developments are the works of director Albert Capellani
(1874--1931), whose oeuvre was instrumental in the development of
cinema in the early 1900s and whose contributions rival those of D.
W. Griffith. For the first time in English, Christine Leteux's
essential biography of Capellani offers a detailed assessment of
the groundbreaking director. Capellani began his career in France
at what was, at the time, the biggest film company in the world:
Pathe. There, he directed the first multireel version of Les
Miserables in 1912 as well as his masterpiece, Germinal (1913).
After immigrating to the United States, Capellani worked at a
number of production houses, including Metro Pictures Corporation,
where he produced his two best-known films, The House of Mirth
(1918) and The Red Lantern (1919). He was well known for making
stage actors into movie stars, and Mistinguett, Stacia
Napierkowska, and Alla Nazimova all rose to prominence under his
direction. The ups and downs of Capellani's career paralleled the
evolution of the film industry and demonstrated the fickle nature
of success. His technical and aesthetic achievements, however,
paved the way for future filmmakers. Featuring a foreword by
Academy Award--winning film historian Kevin Brownlow, Leteux's
intimate biography paints a fascinating portrait of one of the
leading pioneers of early cinema and provides a new window into the
origins of the moving picture.
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