Idols Of Modernity: Movie Stars Of The 1920s (star Decades: American Culture/american Cinema)
by Patrice Petro /
2010 / English / PDF
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With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s,
With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s,Idols of
Modernity
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.
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 on cinema and 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.
Bringing together the best new work on cinema and 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.