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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

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Author

Christine Leteux; Kevin Brownlow; Kevin Brownlow

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813166445

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir