Research Catalog

Title

Napoleon : Abel Gance's classic film / Kevin Brownlow ; research collaborators, Bambi Ballard ... [et al.].

Author

Brownlow, Kevin

Publication

London : Photoplay Productions, 2004.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Ballard, Bambi.

Description

xi, 292 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +

Summary

"This book describes how Abel Gance's classic 1927 film was made, and how it came to survive in truncated versions which did it no justice. It also describes the painstaking reconstruction and the battles to get it shown - battles which are still being fought to this day."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > In motion pictures
• Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
• Napoléon (Motion picture : 1927)

Genre/Form

Compact discs.

Note

• Previous ed.: London: Cape, 1983.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Making -- The Fuse Is Lit -- Chasseur d'images -- Pictures in the Fire -- The Sum of Recollection -- Unsung Heroes -- Anything Possible -- The Search for Napoleon -- 'On tourne!' -- The Enchanted Isle -- Entr'acte -- The Siege of Toulon -- Cordeliers and Convention -- Sweep of Empire -- Flame in the Shadows -- The Music of Light -- Ten-day Wonder -- Defeat in America -- The Reconstruction -- Nothing to Declare -- A Gnashing of Teeth -- Too Good to Last -- Vin de l'Empereur -- Somebody Has to Do It -- On the Firing Line -- A Whiff of Grapeshot -- A Meeting of Eagles -- Fortune Favours the Brave -- Strings Attached -- Gala Derniere -- Fortissimo -- Cresting the Wave -- 'The Measure for All Other Films, Forever' -- Postscript (2001) -- Letter from Abel Gance to Noe Bloch -- Cast and Credits -- The Different Versions of Napoleon.

ISBN

1844570770 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 57485291
• SCSB-10680763

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library