Flickers of Desire

Movie Stars of the 1910s
Herausgeber: Bean, Jennifer M

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Produktbeschreibung

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 became the American film industry's most lucrative mode of product individuation. Contributors chart the rise of American cinema's first galaxy of stars through a variety of archival sources--newspaper columns, popular journals, fan magazines, cartoons, dolls, postcards, scrapbooks, personal letters, limericks, and dances.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 159mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780813550152
• ISBN-10: 0813550157
• Artikelnr.: 32737672

Autorenporträt

Bean, Jennifer M

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. G. M.Anderson: “Broncho Billy” among the Early “Picture Personalities”
2. Mary Pickford: Icon of Stardom
3. Lillian Gish: Clean, and White, and Pure as the Lily
4. Sessue Hayakawa:The Mirror, the Racialized Body, and Photogénie
5. Theda Bara: Orientalism, Sexual Anarchy, and the Jewish Star
6. Geraldine Farrar:A Star from Another Medium
7. George Beban: Character of the Picturesque
8. Pearl White and Grace Cunard:The Serial Queen’s Volatile Present
9. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle: Comedy’s Starring Scapegoat
10. Douglas Fairbanks: Icon of Americanism
11. Charles Chaplin:The Object Life of Mass Culture
In the Wings
Works Cited
Contributors
Index