Liane Mirette, la flapper del cinema muto italiano.

In this essay I focus on the actress, Liane Mirette, rare representative of the flapper in Italian silent cinema, where she worked exclusively, mostly at the Company of Arturo Ambrosio in Turin, from 1920 to 1925, accredited in five movies, including La girandola di fuoco (l.t. The Pinwheel of Fire, 1920) and Maschietta (l.t. Flapper, 1921). The latter film that I analyze for the minutes brought to light and digitized by National Film Archive of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In the first part of my paper I focus on the birth and development of the New Woman in the US, with particular attention to the flapper of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, a decisive figure for post-Victorian literature and Hollywood silent cinema, but, perhaps, also for the Italian silent cinema. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]