Idols of modernity : movie stars of the 1920s / edited by Patrice Petro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petro, Patrice, 1957-

Series:

Star Decades: American Culture/American

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

Actresses--United States--Biography.

Actresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920's, 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 on cinema and stardom in the 1920's, 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stardom in the 1920's / Petro, Patrice

1. Douglas Fairbanks: King of Hollywood / Curtis, Scott

2. Buster Keaton: Comic Invention and the Art of Moving Pictures / Wolfe, Charles

3. The Talmadge Sisters: A Forgotten Filmmaking Dynasty / Jacobs, Lea

4. Rudolph Valentino: Italian American / Lawrence, Amy

5. An Appetite for Living: Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow / Desjardins, Mary

6. Greta Garbo: Fashioning a Star Image / Fischer, Lucy

7. Anna May Wong: Toward Janus-Faced, Border-Crossing, "Minor" Stardom / Wang, Yiman

8. Emil Jannings: Translating the Star / Gemünden, Gerd

9. Al Jolson: The Man Who Changed the Movies Forever / Gabbard, Krin

10. African American Stardom Inside and Outside of Hollywood: Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry / Massood, Paula J.

11. Marie Dressler: Thief of the Talkies / Rapf, Joanna E.

In the Wings / Petro, Patrice

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-56247-9

1-78034-787-1

9786612562471

0-8135-4929-9

OCLC:

641586504