Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes)
The 1916 silent film Cenere (Ashes) features the great Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) in her only cinematic role. In her meditative approach to her craft, she reprised for the screen all the "mother roles" she had created for the theater.
Marking the film''s 100th anniversary, this collection of essays brings together for the first time in English a range of scholarship. The diffic...
The 1916 silent film Cenere (Ashes) features the great Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) in her only cinematic role. In her meditative approach to her craft, she reprised for the screen all the "mother roles" she had created for the theater.
Marking the film''s 100th anniversary, this collection of essays brings together for the first time in English a range of scholarship. The diffic...