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Flickers of desire : movie stars of the 1910s /
Today, we are so accustomed to consuming the amplified lives of film stars that the origins of the phenomenon may seem inevitable in retrospect. But the conjunction of the terms "movie" and "star" was inconceivable prior to the 1910s. Flickers of Desire explores the emergence of...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Star decades: American culture/American cinema.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : stars in the 1910s / Jennifer M. Bean
- G.W. Anderson: "Broncho Billy" Among the Early "Picture Personalities" / Richard Abel
- Mary Pickford: Icon of Stardom / Christine Gledhill
- Lillian Gish : clean, and white, and pure as the lily / Kristen Hatch
- Sessue Hayakawa : the mirror, the racialized body, and photogenie / Daisuke Miyao
- Theda Bara : orientalism, sexual anarchy, and the Jewish star / Gaylyn Studlar
- Geraldine Farrar : a star from another medium / Anne Morey
- George Beban : character of the picturesque / Giorgio Bertellini
- Pearl white and Grace Cunard : the serial queen's volatile present / Mark Garrett Cooper
- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle : comedy's starring scapegoat / Rob King
- Douglas Fairbanks : icon of Americanism / Scott Curtis
- Charles Chaplin : the object life of mass culture / Jennifer M. Bean
- In the wings / Jennifer M. Bean.