Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Sign of the Uncanny: Anna Pavlova in The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916, USA) -- References -- Performing Loneliness: Vladimir Mayakovsky's Silent Soliloquy in Baryshnya i Khuligan/The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918, USSR) -- References -- Re-booting the Self: Ivan Mozzhukhin and Queer Failure in Feu Mathias Pascal/The Late Mathias Pascal (1926, France) -- References -- 'Our Bravest and Most Beautiful Soldier': Pola Negri, Wartime, and the Gendering of Anxiety in Hotel Imperial (1927, USA) -- References -- Silent Performance Beyond Silent Film: Harald Kreutzberg in Paracelsus (1943, Germany) -- References -- Index. |