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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The editors, MariaPia Pagani and Paul Fryer are
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">still
<span style="color:black">seeking chapter proposals for a major new book about the distinguished Italian actor, Eleonora Duse, currently under consideration by an American academic publisher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Silence of Eleonora Duse</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Edited by Maria Pia Pagani (University of Pavia, Italy) and Paul Fryer (Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, UK).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">With an introduction by Antonio Attisani<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Contributors include: Sharon Marie Carnicke, Paul Fryer, Nuccio Lodato, Maria Pia Pagani.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Summary:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The silent film
<i>Cenere</i> (<i>Ashes</i>, Italy 1916) is the only “expression” of Eleonora Duse, the greatest Italian actress, in the motion-picture industry. After her retirement from the stage, at the beginning of 1909, her artistic ‘silence’ was broken by
<i>Cenere</i>. During the filmung, she wrote to her daughter: «The realization of a film is a spiritual problem». In fact, Duse considered cinema
<i>“l’art du silence”</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Adapted from the novel by Grazia Deledda,
<i>Cenere</i> is the highest proof of Duse’s silence and of her spiritual meditation as actress: on the screen, she remembered all of the mother-roles created for the theatre, and used them to create a new performance. Duse’s acting emphasizes Rosalia as an
old mother and sinner, because she is a woman who abandoned her son in childhood to escape with her lover. But the consequences of this rejection are too heavy, and the final sacrifice of her life becomes a form of late reparation for her contempt of the gift
of motherhood. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The expression of all these contrasting feelings is problematic in a silent film. The audience could not hear
the cries of desperation of Rosalia, and Duse’s acting had to balance the absence of technical reproduction of the human voice. For the actress, silence and sorrow are two faces of the same character, Rosalia. But recording Duse was not simple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Konstantin Stanislavski always identified Eleonora Duse as an actor who exemplified his own goals. This collection
of essays analyses Duse’s performance in order to identify those aspects of her acting that best suggest links to Stanislavski’s System. There is a specific examination of Duse’s bodily and facial expressions, hand gestures, and rhythms of motion as evidence
of her character’s unspoken and silent thoughts. These details of her performance exactly mirror Stanislavski’s “inner monologue”, a technique that became central to his System.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Unlike Stanislavski, who articulated a now globally famous System of acting, Duse refused to discuss how she
worked. Probably, the secret of her art finds a better explanation in the poet Federico García Lorca and his theory of
<i>duende</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Duende</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
is a divine gift. It is silent and strong. It has no age. This sort of sacred fire, burns only in few elected artists. Eleonora Duse was one on them.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Writers might consider the following areas of investigation: Duse as movie star, -Duse in the film industry
of her period, - the reception of <i>Cenere/Ashes</i> internationally, Duse from theatre to film industry, photographic realisations of Duse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Proposals of approximately 500 words, should be sent to
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:paul.fryer@bruford.ac.uk"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">paul.fryer@bruford.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The deadline for receipt of the proposal is 31<sup>st</sup> March, 2015.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Paul Fryer</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Associate Director of Research</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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