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Rising Star : Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle / Rhonda K. Garelick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (241 p.) : 19 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691223926
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 840.8007 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ295.D37
  • PQ1136 .G374 1998
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. THE TREATISES OF DANDYISM -- CHAPTER TWO. MALLARMÉ: CROWDS, PERFORMANCE, AND THE FASHIONABLE WOMAN -- CHAPTER THREE. ROBOTIC PLEASURES, DANCE, AND THE MEDIA PERSONALITY -- CHAPTER FOUR. ELECTRIC SALOME: THE MECHANICAL DANCES OF LOIE FULLER -- CHAPTER FIVE. CAMP SALOME: OSCAR WILDE'S CIRCLES OF DESIRE -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self. Rising Star is a fascinating look at the roots of this particular form of celebrity. Here Rhonda Garelick locates a prototype of the star personality in the dandies and aesthete literary figures of the nineteenth century, including Beau Brummell, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Oscar Wilde, and explores their peculiarly charged relationship with women and performance. When fin-de-siècle aesthetes turned their attention to the new, "feminized" spectacle of mass culture, Garelick argues, they found a disturbing female counterpart to their own highly staged personae. She examines the concept of the broadcasted self-image in literary works as well as in such unwritten cultural texts as the choreography and films of dancer Loie Fuller, the industrialized spectacles of European World Fairs, and the cultural performances taking place today in fields ranging from entertainment to the academy. Recent dandy-like figures such as the artist formerly known as Prince, Madonna, Jacques Derrida, and Jackie O. all share a legacy provided by the encounter between "high" and early mass culture. Garelick's analysis of this encounter covers a wide range of topics, from the gender complexity of the European male dandy and the mechanization of the female body to Orientalist performance, the origins of cinema, and the emergence of "crowd" theory and mass politics.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. THE TREATISES OF DANDYISM -- CHAPTER TWO. MALLARMÉ: CROWDS, PERFORMANCE, AND THE FASHIONABLE WOMAN -- CHAPTER THREE. ROBOTIC PLEASURES, DANCE, AND THE MEDIA PERSONALITY -- CHAPTER FOUR. ELECTRIC SALOME: THE MECHANICAL DANCES OF LOIE FULLER -- CHAPTER FIVE. CAMP SALOME: OSCAR WILDE'S CIRCLES OF DESIRE -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self. Rising Star is a fascinating look at the roots of this particular form of celebrity. Here Rhonda Garelick locates a prototype of the star personality in the dandies and aesthete literary figures of the nineteenth century, including Beau Brummell, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Oscar Wilde, and explores their peculiarly charged relationship with women and performance. When fin-de-siècle aesthetes turned their attention to the new, "feminized" spectacle of mass culture, Garelick argues, they found a disturbing female counterpart to their own highly staged personae. She examines the concept of the broadcasted self-image in literary works as well as in such unwritten cultural texts as the choreography and films of dancer Loie Fuller, the industrialized spectacles of European World Fairs, and the cultural performances taking place today in fields ranging from entertainment to the academy. Recent dandy-like figures such as the artist formerly known as Prince, Madonna, Jacques Derrida, and Jackie O. all share a legacy provided by the encounter between "high" and early mass culture. Garelick's analysis of this encounter covers a wide range of topics, from the gender complexity of the European male dandy and the mechanization of the female body to Orientalist performance, the origins of cinema, and the emergence of "crowd" theory and mass politics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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