Hollywood Unknowns : A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins /

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Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present. Hollywood Unknowns discusses the rel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slide, Anthony
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Extras (Actors)
PERFORMING ARTS > Acting & Auditioning.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Figurants > États-Unis.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Extras (Actors) > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The extra in the early silent years
  • The 1920s
  • The Hollywood studio club
  • Central casting
  • The port of missing girls
  • The coming of sound
  • The stand-in
  • Celebrity extras
  • The silent star as extra
  • Ethnic extras
  • The 1940s, unionization, and beyond
  • "Extras, extras, read all about 'em."

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