Modern Dance and “danses apaches” in Italian Silent Cinema
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Dance’s Reading Glass
Dance’s Reading Glass. The Depiction of Women Onscreen in Stacia Napierkowska’s Choreographic Performances, in The Visible Woman. On-Screen Presences of Femininity. 1895-1920, edited by Àngel Quintana and Jordi Pons, pp. 109-119. Proceedings of the 12th International Seminar on the History and Origins of Cinema, Girona, Fundació Museu del Cinema-Collecció Tomàs Mallol-Ajuntament de Girona, 2020. “Napierkowska […]
Read moreTarantella Dance in Early Cinema
“Tarantella Dance in Early Cinema: A Pillar of Neapolitan Urban Architecture”, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Volume 46, Issue 2 (August 2019) (doi: 10.1177/1748372719865552). “Pavlova’s acting style did not derive from a misunderstood relationship with the camera, but rather from her ballet training. Dance and pantomime were indeed both the means of expression of the ballet […]
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“Dancing Phantoms: The Cinematic Representation of the Subconscious through Choreographic Embodiments”, Immagine. Note di Storia del Cinema, IV series, No. 18, July-December 2018, special issue edited by Mireille Berton and Silvio Alovisio, pp. 117-143. “During the so called “cinéma de la seconde époque” (1907-1917), oneiric and hallucinatory visions were considered by both psychology and physiology as the collateral […]
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