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Idols of Modernity : Movie Stars of the 1920s / ed. by Patrice Petro.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Star Decades: American Culture/AmericanPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 50 photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813547312
  • 9780813549293
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/80922
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.2 .I36 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Stardom in the 1920s -- 1. Douglas Fairbanks: King of Hollywood -- 2. Buster Keaton: Comic Invention and the Art of Moving Pictures -- 3. The Talmadge Sisters: A Forgotten Filmmaking Dynasty -- 4. Rudolph Valentino: Italian American -- 5. An Appetite for Living: Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow -- 6. Greta Garbo: Fashioning a Star Image -- 7. Anna May Wong:Toward Janus-Faced, Border-Crossing, "Minor" Stardom -- 8. Emil Jannings:Translating the Star -- 9. Al Jolson:The Man Who Changed the Movies Forever -- 10. African American Stardom Inside and Outside of Hollywood: Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry -- 11. Marie Dressler: Thief of the Talkies -- In the Wings -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound. Bringing together the best new work oncinemaand stardom in the 1920s, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, institutional, and aesthetic issues at work in American cinema of this time. Attentive to stardom as an ensemble of texts, contexts, and social phenomena stretching beyond the cinema, major scholars provide careful analysis of the careers of both well-known and now forgotten stars of the silent and early sound era-Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, the Talmadge sisters, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Greta Garbo, Anna May Wong, Emil Jannings, Al Jolson, Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, Lincoln Perry, and Marie Dressler.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Stardom in the 1920s -- 1. Douglas Fairbanks: King of Hollywood -- 2. Buster Keaton: Comic Invention and the Art of Moving Pictures -- 3. The Talmadge Sisters: A Forgotten Filmmaking Dynasty -- 4. Rudolph Valentino: Italian American -- 5. An Appetite for Living: Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow -- 6. Greta Garbo: Fashioning a Star Image -- 7. Anna May Wong:Toward Janus-Faced, Border-Crossing, "Minor" Stardom -- 8. Emil Jannings:Translating the Star -- 9. Al Jolson:The Man Who Changed the Movies Forever -- 10. African American Stardom Inside and Outside of Hollywood: Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry -- 11. Marie Dressler: Thief of the Talkies -- In the Wings -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index

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With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound. Bringing together the best new work oncinemaand stardom in the 1920s, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, institutional, and aesthetic issues at work in American cinema of this time. Attentive to stardom as an ensemble of texts, contexts, and social phenomena stretching beyond the cinema, major scholars provide careful analysis of the careers of both well-known and now forgotten stars of the silent and early sound era-Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, the Talmadge sisters, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Greta Garbo, Anna May Wong, Emil Jannings, Al Jolson, Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, Lincoln Perry, and Marie Dressler.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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