Idols of Modernity

Movie Stars of the 1920s

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound.Bringing together the best new work oncinemaand stardom in the 1920s, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, institutional, and aesthetic issues at work in American cinema of this time. Attentive to stardom as an ensemble of texts, contexts, and social phenomena stretching beyond the cinema, major scholars provide careful analysis of the careers of both well-known and now forgotten stars of the silent and early sound era-Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, the Talmadge sisters, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Greta Garbo, Anna May Wong, Emil Jannings, Al Jolson, Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, Lincoln Perry, and Marie Dressler.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-03-04
Mått156 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStar Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
Antal sidor328
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813547329

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Douglas Fairbanks : king of HollywoodBuster Keaton : comic invention and the art of moving picturesThe Talmadge sisters : a forgotten filmmaking dynastyRudolph Valentino : Italian AmericanAn appetite for living : Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara BowGreta Garbo : fashioning a star imageAnna May Wong : toward Janus-faced, border-crossing, "minor" stardomEmil Jannings : translating the starAl Jolson : the man who changed the movies foreverAfrican American stardom inside and outside of Hollywood : Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln PerryMarie Dressler : thief of the talkiesIn the wings

"A collection of fascinating, stellar essays on the emerging culture of celebrity during the 1920s. Highly recommended." (Choice) "Incisive, elegantly crafted essays chronicling the major figures in the first years of the star system. Idols of Modernity is a rigorous, insightful, and refreshing look at the stars of the 1920s, the world in which they lived, the directors, producers and studios who shaped their public image, and the audiences who flocked to see their films." (Screening the Past) "A collection of fascinating, stellar essays on the emerging culture of celebrity during the 1920s. Highly recommended." (Choice) "Incisive, elegantly crafted essays chronicling the major figures in the first years of the star system. Idols of Modernity is a rigorous, insightful, and refreshing look at the stars of the 1920s, the world in which they lived, the directors, producers and studios who shaped their public image, and the audiences who flocked to see their films." (Screening the Past)