Author:
Förster, Annette, author.
ImprintAmsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
Imprint2017
Description560 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:The Method of Writing Careerographies -- Archival and Other Sources -- Nell Shipman in the Archives -- Musidora in the Archives -- Adrienne Solser in the Archives -- Note on the usage of Dutch and French names for genres and on translations -- pt. I. ADRIENNE SOLSER, THE NETHERLANDS -- Adrienne Solser on the Dutch Popular Stage -- The Formative Years, 1885-1904 -- Pioneering Comedians in the Dutch Variete -- The Years of Achievement, 1904-1914 -- New Entertainment Genres and Blurry Boundaries -- Entr'acte: Solser's Repertoire and Stage Persona -- The Years of Character Comedy, 1914-1920 -- Adrienne Solser as the Amsterdam Folk Woman -- Stage History of Amsterdam Folk Characters -- Adrienne Solser and the Dutch Silent Cinema -- Interaction On-stage and On-screen, 1896-1930 -- Mixed Programs in Dutch Varietes and Cinemas -- Staging Films: Lecturing -- Dutch Comic Film Production until 1920 -- Reviewing Interaction Between Stage and Screen -- Dutch Comic Film during the 1920s -- Adrienne Solser as an On- and Off-screen Film Performer -- A Difficult Choice -- Adrienne Solser's Production Company, 1924-1928 -- Solser's Live Act and the Bet-character -- Solser's Career in the Cinema -- Epilogue -- pt. II. MUSIDORA, FRANCE -- Musidora on the French Popular Stage -- Jeanne Roques Becoming Musidora, 1906-1912 -- Musidora's Early Acting Career -- French Popular Stage Genres -- Musidora in Music-hall and the Parisian Revue, 1912-1914 -- Of Vedettes and "their" Genres -- Musidora in the Parisian Revue -- Revue and Film -- Musidora's Writings and Charicatures -- Conditions of Musidora's Stage Career by 1914 -- Musidora and the French Silent Cinema -- Musidora as an Actress at Gaumont, 1914-1916 -- Feuillade's Dramas and Comic Films with Musidora -- Coexistence Cinema and Stage Performance -- Cine-vaudevilles and Stage Vaudeville -- Feuillade's Serials with Musidora -- Musidora as an Actress, 1916-1918 -- Musidora Speaking about Acting in La Vagabonde -- Musidora Writing, Directing, Acting and Producing Films, 1919-1924 -- Vicenta (1920) -- Pour Don Carlos (1921) -- Soleil Et Ombre (1922) -- La Terre Des Taureaux (1924) -- Epilogue -- pt. III. NELL SHIPMAN, NORTH AMERICA -- Nell Shipman on the American Popular Stage -- Nell Shipman's Stage Career, 1907-1911 -- Entr'acte: Some Reflections on the Memoirs as a Source -- The Climax of the Stage Period -- The Barrier as Northwest Drama -- Nell Shipman's Options and Choices, 1911-1912 -- Nell Shipman and the American Silent Cinema -- Nell Shipman as a Scenarist, 1912-1917 -- Under the Crescent: Series and Novel -- Scenario "The Last Empire" -- Nell Shipman Acting for the Camera, 1915-1918 -- Actress at Vitagraph -- James Oliver Curwood's Northwest Dramas -- Back to Nell Shipman's Career: Options and Choices, 1918 -- The Shipman-Curwood Film Producing Company, 1918-1920 -- From "Wapi the Walrus" to BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY -- Nell Shipman Acting with Animals -- Nell Shipman's Options and Choices, 1919-1920 -- Nell Shipman Writing, Directing, Acting in and Producing Films, 1920-1925 -- A Bear, a Boy and a Dog -- Something New and the Trail of the Arrow -- The Girl From God's Country -- "I packed my Toys and Moved North" -- The Grubstake as Nell Shipman's Magnum Opus -- Nell Shipman's Options and Choices, 1924-1925 -- Epilogue -- IN CONCLUSION -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Career Overviews -- Adrienne Solser -- Musidora -- Nell Shipman.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-525) and index.
Note:"This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and filmmaker Nell Shipman; an analysis of the interaction between the popular stage and the silent cinema from the perspective of women at work in both realms; fresh insights into Dutch stage and screen comedy, the French revue and the American Northwest drama of the 1910s; and much more, all grounded in a wealth of archival research" -- Provided by publisher.
