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Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is one of the preeminent figures of the modern European theater. His masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, set loose a riot during its first performance in Rome in 1921. This play about six unfortunate characters abandoned by their author in the middle of a tawdry drama, is an unsettling, supremely self-conscious work that is ultimately about theatrical artifice and artistic creation itself. Pirandello and Film examines Pirandello's many efforts - none of them finally successful - to transform Six Characters into a movie. The authors examine Pirandello's views on film and its relation to theater, his varying approaches to creating a film adaptation of Six Characters, and the efforts of directors and film moguls in Germany and Hollywood to fashion a cinematic version of the play. The book also presents an array of important documents, including some that have never before appeared in English: a Prologue (or prose sketch) for a 1926 film; a Scenario (a more detailed prose sketch) prepared by Pirandello and Adolph Lantz in the late 1920s for a German film version of Six Characters, an English-language film sketch written in 1935 by Pirandello and Saul Colin; and a letter from Max Reinhardt and the German emigre Hollywood film director Joseph von Sternberg to Saul Colin regarding the proposed film treatment of the play. These documents, together with the authors' critical text, provide a detailed portrait of Pirandello's developing view of film as an appropriate medium for his revolutionary dramatic innovations.

Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir often reflected the attitudes of writers and directors whose lives and work were affected by the events that followed the First World War. Films such as Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, The Big Sleep, Laura, Kiss Me Deadly, and more recently Chinatown and The Grifters, are indelibly American. Yet the sources of this genre are to be found mainly in Germany and France, and emigrant writers and directors developed the form in the United States, where it quickly flourished. Andrew Dickos's history of the film noir traces the style back to its German Expressionist (1920s) and French Cinema Golden Age (1930s) forerunners, and is among the first to explore noir primarily through a look at the works of those that shaped the genre in America: notable directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, John Huston, Nicholas Ray, Robert Aldrich, Samuel Fuller, Otto Preminger, Robert Siodmak, Abraham Polonsky, Jules Dassin, and others. the genre's influence on such celebrated French New Wave filmmakers as Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard is also examined, as is noir's contemporary manifestation in the cinema of the last twenty-five years. Dickos has set Street With No Name apart from other film noir books by tracing its development in a loosely historical style that associates certain noir directors to those features in their films that helped define the scope of the genre. Liberally illustrated with classic film stills, Street With No Name offers a unique account of the rise of film noir.

Safety film - Photographic film called safety film is made with an acetate base, chemically either cellulose diacetate, cellulose acetate propiarate, cellulose acetate butyrate, or cellulose triacetate. Beginning in the 1920s, it replaced nitrocellulose, or nitrate, film bases used previously as the film stock used in both amateur and professional applications.

16 mm film - 16 mm film was initially created in the 1920s as an inexpensive amateur alternative to the conventional 35 mm film format. Thanks to the compact size and lower cost, 16 mm was quickly adopted for use in professional news reporting, corporate and educational films, and other uses, while the home movie market switched to even less expensive 8 mm film.

Silent film - A silent film is a film with no accompanying, synchronized recorded spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the motion picture itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, most films were silent before the late 1920s.

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1920s Arts Entertainment - 1920s Arts Entertainment Thoroughly Modern Millie (DVD) This characteristically spectacular Ross Hunter musical production, a parody of the films of the 1920s, stars Julie Andrews as the eager young Millie Dillmount. She arrives in New York City in the 1920s intent on a job as a secretary with a rich, handsome, eligible boss. Deciding to adopt the appearance of a flapper, she has her hair bobbed. At a women's hotel run by Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie), who also runs a ...

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