Tag Archives: Jean-Gaspard Deburau

MIMETIC ART & THE SWEET BLACK ANGELS

”Paris est si petit pour les gens  gens comme nous qui s’aiment d’un aussi grand amour” ( Children of Paradise ) Children of Paradise was conceived as a film spectaculaire in the fullest sense of the term. It is a … Continue reading

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PARADISE POSTPONED: SHAKIN' ALL OVER

Works like Victor Hugo’s Hernani (1830) and Han d’Islande (1823), Frédéric Soulié’s Les Mémoires du Diableand (1838), Charles Nodier’s La Fée aux Miettes (1832), and indeed Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (1830), all came to typify this emerging trope of Romanticism. Philosopher’s … Continue reading

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BERLIOZ: VIBRATIONS OF THE UNEXPLORED DEPTHS

”As a conductor of his own compositions he was incomparable […] His music, frequently rugged in contrasts and daring leaps, is also insinuating and suave at times, and so too was his conducting; one moment he would be high in … Continue reading

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