Idols of modernity : movie stars of the 1920s /
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. Bringi...
| Други автори: | Petro, Patrice, 1957- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Серия: |
Star decades: American culture/American cinema.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=321679 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Idols of modernity. |
Съдържание:
- Douglas Fairbanks : king of Hollywood
- Buster Keaton : comic invention and the art of moving pictures
- The Talmadge sisters : a forgotten filmmaking dynasty
- Rudolph Valentino : Italian American
- An appetite for living : Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow
- Greta Garbo : fashioning a star image
- Anna May Wong : toward Janus-faced, border-crossing, "minor" stardom
- Emil Jannings : translating the star
- Al Jolson : the man who changed the movies forever
- African American stardom inside and outside of Hollywood : Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry
- Marie Dressler : thief of the talkies
- In the wings.