"American Night - With Love in the Movies" - American Night

Japanese: 《アメリカの夜――映画に愛をこめて》 - あめりかのよる
"American Night - With Love in the Movies" - American Night

...American film actress. Described as "the greatest heroine to appear on the silent screen," she left behind many masterpieces as the leading actress in DW Griffith's films. Born in Ohio. She began performing on stage at the age of five, and in 1912, through an introduction from Mary Pickford, she joined Griffith's Biograph company with her sister Dorothy, making her debut in "The Invisible Enemy." In 1915, she played the role of a Southern heiress in peril in the huge success of "The Birth of a Nation," which made her name known worldwide, and in "Intolerance" (1916) she played the symbolic role of a mother rocking a cradle, which is the key link between the four episodes. ...

From Truffaut

...Film director and theorist Alexandre Astruc defined Truffaut as a "cineaste of love." Truffaut himself said that the motif of "love" in his films was "women, children, and books." For example, "love for women" is expressed in his masterpieces, such as "Sudden Flame" (1961), "Etude of Love" (1971), and "The Woman Next Door" (1981), "love for children" is expressed in his first feature film, "The 400's" (1959), "The Wild Boys" (1969), and "The Truffauts" (1976), which are rare autobiographical series in the history of cinema, "The Antoine Doinel Stories." "Love for books" is expressed succinctly in "Fahrenheit 451" (1966), and what runs through all of them is "love for movies," as directly expressed in "An American Night" (1973). Born in Paris. ...

*Some of the terminology used in "American Night - With Love in the Movies" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アメリカの映画女優。〈サイレント・スクリーンに現れたもっとも偉大なヒロイン〉と評され,D.W.グリフィス監督作品の主演女優として数々の名作を残した。オハイオ州生れ。5歳のときから舞台に立ち,メリー・ピックフォードの紹介で妹のドロシーとともに1912年,グリフィスのバイオグラフ社に入り,《見えざる敵》でデビュー。15年,危地におちる南部の名家の令嬢を演じた《国民の創生》の大ヒットで彼女の名も世界的に有名になり,《イントレランス》(1916)では四つのエピソードをつなぐかなめとなる揺籃をゆする象徴的な母のイメージを演じた。…

【トリュフォー】より

…映画作家・理論家のアレクサンドル・アストリュックは,トリュフォーを〈愛のシネアスト〉と定義した。トリュフォー自身,彼の映画の〈愛〉のモティーフを〈女と子どもと書物〉だと語っていて,たとえば〈女への愛〉は代表作の一つとされる《突然炎のごとく》(1961)や《恋のエチュード》(1971)や《隣の女》(1981)に,〈子どもへの愛〉は最初の長編であり映画史上稀有(けう)な自伝的シリーズ〈アントアーヌ・ドワネルもの〉の第1作ともなる《大人は判ってくれない》(1959)や《野性の少年》(1969)や《トリュフォーの思春期》(1976)に,〈書物への愛〉は《華氏451》(1966)に端的に表れ,そしてそれらすべてを貫いているのが《アメリカの夜――映画に愛をこめて》(1973)で直接的に表現されていたように,〈映画への愛〉といえる。 パリ生れ。…

※「《アメリカの夜――映画に愛をこめて》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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