Title: Diva
First published: 2008
Description: "Animated by a luminous goddess at its center, the diva film provided a forum for denouncing social evils and exploring new models of behavior among the sexes...Dalle Vacche offers the first authoritative study of this important film genre of the cinema that preceded the First World War...Contrasting the Italian diva with the Hollywood vamp Theda Bara and the famous Danish star Asta Nielsen, Dalle Vacche shows how the diva oscillates between articulating Henri Bergson's vibrant life-force and representing the suffering figure of the Catholic mater dolorosa." -- Cover.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Women in motion pictures, Motion pictures, italy, PERFORMING ARTS, Film & Video, Reference, Silent films, Motion picture actors and actresses, Biography, Motion picture acting, History, Motion picture industry
Places: Italy
LC classification: PN1995.9.W6 D35 2008