London After Midnight: An English Translation of the 1929 French Novelization of the Lost Lon Chaney Film

Author:   Thomas Mann
Publisher:   BearManor Media
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9781629333700


Pages:   174
Publication Date:   26 September 2018
Format:   Paperback
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London After Midnight: An English Translation of the 1929 French Novelization of the Lost Lon Chaney Film


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The last known copy of London After Midnight, the lost 1927 Lon Chaney film, was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1967. Since then researchers have been combing film archives throughout the world in hopes of finding a surviving copy, but without success. Different 'reconstructions' of the film--one in book format, the other as a motion picture--have continued to generate interest in recent years, both relying primarily on the many surviving still photos, arranged in sequence according to the film's surviving cutting continuity (with the motion picture camera's panning and zooming across them). Thomas Mann, who discovered the long-lost 1928 Boy's Cinema literary version of the film (published by BearManor Media), now offers a new and comparably important discovery: an English translation of an equally ""lost"" French novelization of the story dating from 1929, written by someone who actually saw the film. In a detailed comparison of this literary take on the story to the movie itself (as represented by its cutting continuity), Mann sheds considerable new light on the range of incoherent plot problems known to have bedeviled the film, and on how they were creatively dealt with by a contemporary story teller. Thomas Mann is a retired librarian and independent scholar living in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Oxford Guide to Library Research (Oxford University Press, 2015). Lucien Boisyvon (1886-1967), author of Londres Après Minuit, was a prolific writer, newspaper critic, and popular novelist. Kieran O'Driscoll holds a doctorate in French-English Literary Translation from Dublin City University. Among other works he has translated two plays by Jules Verne in BearManor Media's Palik Series of the North American Jules Verne Society.

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Author:   Thomas Mann
Publisher:   BearManor Media
Imprint:   BearManor Media
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9781629333700


ISBN 10:   1629333700
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   26 September 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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