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Book Description
color photo, 31 b&w photos Years in the planning and months in production, Abel Gance's Napoleon astonished its audience with the boldness of its conception-not least at the moment when the screen expanded to reveal Gance's visionary invention of Polyvision, a wide-screen system thirty years ahead of its time. Yet Gance's triumph was short-lived. The American version, re-edited by MGM, was a disaster. The sheer length of the film, and its spectacular effects, produced problems for exhibitors. Gance never gave up trying to improve it. In 1934 he added sound; in 1970 he was still editing.
About the Author
Director, scriptwriter, and author Nelly Kaplan was an intimate collaborator of Gance from 1954 to 1964. She thus gained access to rare documents in many cases unpublished to this day, some of which appear for the first time in this book. Bernard McGuirk is Professor of Romance Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on the literatures and cultures of France, Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
Napoleon (Bfi Film Classics),Nelly Kaplan,Bernard McGuirk,British Film Institute,University of California Press,0851704662,1769-1821,Emperor of the French,,Film & Video - History & Criticism,I,,In motion pictures,Napoleon,Napolâeon (Motion picture : 1927),Performing Arts/Dance,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Silent Films
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