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Flickers of Desire : Movie Stars of the 1910s /

The conjunction of the terms "movie" and "star" was inconceivable prior to the 1910s. Flickers of Desire explores the emergence of this mass cultural phenomenon, asking how and why a cinema that did not even run screen credits developed so quickly into a venue in which performers...

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Otros Autores: Bean, Jennifer M., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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