Twilight of the Idols : Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America /

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This book revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual starsWallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel Normand among t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Mark Lynn, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popular culture.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Motion picture industry.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Celebrities.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Cinema > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Celebrities > United States.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States.
Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Films.
Motion pictures.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The early Hollywood scandals and the death of Wallace Reid
  • Psychoanalysis and fandom in the Leopold and Loeb trial
  • Queer Valentino
  • Black Valentino
  • Mabel Normand and the ends of error.

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