Idols of Modernity - Movie Stars of the 1920s (Paperback)

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.
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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	March 2010
Editors:	Patrice Petro
Introduction by:	Patrice Petro
Contributors:	Scott Curtis • Mary Desjardins • Lucy Fischer • Krin Gabbard • Gerd Gemunden • Lea Jacobs • Amy Lawrence • Paula J. Massood
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-4732-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8135-4732-6
Barcode:	9780813547329

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