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SILENT FILM AND THE EARLY FICTION OF STEPHEN LEACOCK

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From: Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Date: 20071001
Author:St Pierre, Paul Matthew

Résumé: En plus d'offrir une parodie du cinéma muet mélodramatique, la nouvelle de Stephen Leacock, « Madeline of the Movies: A Photoplay Done in Words » (1916) montre aussi comment les spectateurs des annees 1910 ont appris à comprendre les films de l'époque. Leacock recrée de facon humouristique I'apprentissage d'une narratrice naive qui découvre le langage du cinéma, comme les gros-plans, les raccords, les intertitres, les retours en arrière et le montage.

Stephen Leacock's early fiction, published in the 1910s, coincided with the middle decade of the silent-film era. While his ...

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