Tracing the Australasian Asta Nielsen Boom in Trove and Papers Past: a tool for recreating the circulation histories of silent films
Tracing the Australasian Asta Nielsen Boom in Trove and Papers Past: a tool for recreating the circulation histories of silent films
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在《Trove and Papers Past》中追踪澳大利亚阿斯塔·尼尔森的繁荣：重建无声电影发行历史的工具
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10.1080/17460654.2021.2058204
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2021
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0.2
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Julie K.
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Julie K.
早期电影的流通是非常短暂的，因为电影被认为是可消费的，可互换的对象。他们在电影院里迅速穿行，只停留几天或几周，几乎没有留下任何痕迹，可以用来记录世纪后他们的运动。在澳大利亚和新西兰（统称为澳大拉西亚或澳大利亚）蓬勃发展的早期电影市场上，即使是以丹麦女演员阿斯塔·尼尔森（Asta Nielsen）这样的大获成功的星星为主角的电影，也很少有关于无声时代的发行或放映公司的记录能够保存下来，以揭示他们可能进口和放映了哪些阿斯塔·尼尔森的电影，更不用说观众对他们能够观看的电影的看法了。幸运的是，新西兰（paperspast.natlib.govt.nz）和澳大利亚（trove.nla.gov.au）大量档案报纸的开放式数字化使得重建许多早期电影的大部分发行历史成为可能，从而表明它们的受欢迎程度和相对盈利能力。这些档案材料证实，阿斯塔·尼尔森是澳大利亚电影界一位知名的、极有价值的星星，在第一次世界大战前的四年时间里，有近24部电影在发行。这篇文章演示了如何Trove和Papers Past可以用来跟踪Asta Nielsen film When the Mask福尔斯/Wenn die Mask fällt（1912）通过澳大拉西亚的运动，将其作为Asta Nielsen film在澳大利亚的一个更大现象的一部分，并将其置于第一次世界大战前澳大拉西亚电影展览和发行的更大背景下。
The circulation of early films was highly ephemeral, since films were regarded as consumable, interchangeable objects. Their rapid passage through cinemas, staying for just a few days or weeks, left few traces that can be used to document their movement a century later. Even in the case of films featuring a phenomenally successful star like the Danish actress Asta Nielsen in the burgeoning early cinema market of Australia and New Zealand (known collectively as Australasia or the Antipodes), few records of silent-era distribution or exhibition companies have survived to reveal which Asta Nielsen films they may have imported and screened, let alone what audiences thought of the films they were able to view. Fortunately, the open-access digitization of extensive archival newspaper holdings in New Zealand (paperspast.natlib.govt.nz) and Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) has made it possible to recreate much of the circulation history of many early films, thereby indicating their popularity and relative profitability. Such archival material confirms that Asta Nielsen was a well-known, highly valued star in the Australasian cinema firmament, with nearly two dozen films in circulation over a four-year period preceding the First World War. This article demonstrates how Trove and Papers Past can be used to follow the movement of the Asta Nielsen filmWhen the Mask Falls/Wenn die Maske fällt(1912) through Australasia, contextualize it as part of a much larger phenomenon of Asta Nielsen films in the Antipodes, and situate it within the larger context of Australasian cinema exhibition and distribution in the pre-First World War era.
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2010
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作者：
John H. Burrows
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John H. Burrows
娱乐澳大利亚：图文并茂的历史
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发表时间：
1991
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作者：
Katharine Brisbane
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Katharine Brisbane