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Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century /
"Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive opt...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson [Mississippi] :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; A Personal Greeting; Foreword: A Fairbanks Memoir; Introduction: The Choreography of Hope; PART I. ODYSSEY OF A SPRING LAMB; Chapter 1. ""Windows Are the Only Doors"": The First Films (The Lamb, 1915, and Double Trouble, 1915); Chapter 2. ""The Leap to Greatness"": The Years at Triangle, Artcraft, United Artists, 1916-1919; Chapter 3. ""Arizona Jim"": The Fairbanks Westerns, 1916-1920; Chapter 4. ""Her Picture in the Papers"": Mary Pickford's ""Growing Girl""
- Chapter 5. On an Odd Note: Say, Young Fellow! (1918), The Nut (1920), and When the Clouds Roll By (1919)PART II. THE IMPERIAL REACH
- Chapter 6. Prologue; Chapter 7. The Mark of Greatness: The Adventures of Señor Zorro; Chapter 8. A Dance of Free Men in the Forest: Robin Hood; Chapter 9. Architecture in Motion: The Thief of Bagdad; Chapter 10. A Painted Ship on a Painted Ocean: The Black Pirate; Chapter 11. Dumas, Douglas, and Delirium: Fairbanks and the Musketeers; Chapter 12. The Fall from Grace: The Gaucho; PART III. DOUG AND MARY FIND THEIR VOICES.
- Chapter 13. Coquette: Goodbye to the Glad GirlChapter 14. A Shrewd Adaptation: The Taming of the Shrew; PART IV. ARTISTS AND HUSBANDS; Chapter 15. Prologue; Chapter 16. Reaching for the Moon; Chapter 17. Around the World in Eighty Minutes; Chapter 18. Mr. Robinson Crusoe; Chapter 19. The Private Life of Don Juan; Epilogue; Afterword: The Makings of a Man 1880-1927; Appendix A. ""His Own Man"": Interviews with Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; Appendix B. On the Set of The Iron Mask (1929); Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.