"Twilight of the Idols" revisits some of the sensational scandals
of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our
contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes
in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars
- Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel Normand among them -
Mark Lynn Anderson shows how the era's celebrity culture shaped
public ideas about personality and human conduct and played a
pivotal role in the emergent human sciences of psychology,
anthropology, and sociology. Anderson looks at motion picture stars
who embodied various forms of deviance - narcotic addiction,
criminality, sexual perversion, and racial indeterminacy. He
considers how the studios profited from popularizing ideas about
deviance, and how the debates generated by the early Hollywood
scandals continue to affect our notions of personality, sexuality,
and public morals.
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