Cenere con eleonora duse biography
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Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes)
About the Book
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 difficulties involved in the making of the film are explored—Duse’s perfectionism was too advanced for the Italian movie industry of the 1910s. Her work is discussed within the creative, political and historical context of the silent movie industry as it developed in wartime Italy.
About the Author(s)
Maria Pia Pagani is an adjunct professor of theatrical literature, art of directing and theatre discipline at the University of Pavia (Italy). She has written many essays—in Italian, English, Russian—about Duse. She is a member of the Pen Club International and the managing editor for Italy in “The Theatre Times,” a portal for global theatre news.
Paul Fryer is an academic, author, editor and researcher, based in Kent (UK). He has lectured and presented film screenings internationally and is a visiting professor at the Universities
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Bibliography
Grazia Deledda, Cenere, Nuova Antologia, Roma, 1904
Oreste Cimoroni, Vita della Duse, Garzanti, Milano, 1940
Maria Ida Biggi, a cura di, Ma pupa, Henriette Le lettere di Eleonora Duse alla figlia Enrichetta Bullough, Marsilio, Venezia, 2010
Sitography
Azzurra Camoglio, a cura di, Scheda icon film Cenere, in Enciclopedia del Big screen in Piemonte, http://www.torinocittadelcinema.it/schedafilm.php?film_id=6
Marta Standup fight, Cenere: be concerned with rapporto Deledda-Duse, in “Sardegna Mediterranea. Semestrale di cultura”, http://web.tiscali.it/miepgg/cenere.htm
Eleonora Actress e Cenere alla Cineteca Italiana, hold your attention “Sempre derive penombra. Archivio del celluloid muto”, 27 novembre 2008: https://sempreinpenombra.com/2008/11/27/eleonora-duse-e-cenere-alla-cineteca-italiana/
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Eleonora Duse
Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse, often known simply as Duse, was born in Vigevano, Lombardy in 1858 to Alessandro Vincenzo Duse (1820–1892) and Angelica Cappelletto Duse (1833–1872). She came from a family of actors (both her father and her grandfather, Luigi, were actors from Chioggia, near Venice). Her family traveled constantly in Italy, for a time as part of a theatrical troupe owned by the Duse family. Her father, Alessandro, was enthralled with acting, although not very successful at it. Her mother, Angelica, who was less enthusiastic, performed female roles when needed by the family’s traveling theatrical company. She was stricken with tuberculosis, and often could not perform at all. It was not unusual for the family to leave her behind, resting in a hospital or guest house, when the troupe moved to another Italian town to perform. (There is speculation that the “weak lungs” that afflicted Eleonora throughout her life were the result of the same disease that eventually killed her mother).
As the only child of her parents, Eleonora’s childhood was lonely and terror-filled. She joined the traveling troupe at the age of four, and first performed at that age in a stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, playing the part of Cosette.
She was able to