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.…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jennifer M. Bean is the director of the cinema studies program and an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington. She is coeditor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema and a recipient of the prestigious Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
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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
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
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