Glamour in a Golden Age

Movie Stars of the 1930s
Herausgeber: McLean, Adrienne L

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Produktbeschreibung

Glamour in a Golden Age, incorporating archival and popular material, including fan and mass market magazines, other promotional and publicity material, and films themselves, presents original essays from eminent film scholars that analyze movie stars of the 1930s. Against the background of contemporary American cultural history, stardom is approached as an effect of, and influence on, the particular historical and industrial contexts that enabled these actors and actresses to be discovered, featured in films, publicized, and become recognized and admired--sometimes even notorious--parts of the cultural landscape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 297
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780813549057
• ISBN-10: 0813549051
• Artikelnr.: 30690874

Autorenporträt

McLean, Adrienne L

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Stardom in the 1930s
1. Not of Hollywood: Ruth Chatterton, Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Kay
Francis, and Nancy Carroll
2. Shirley Temple: Making Dreams Come True
3. Gary Cooper: Rugged Elegance
4. Bette Davis: Worker and Queen
5. Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo: The Sexy Hausfrau versus the Swedish
Sphinx
6. Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford: Rivals at the Glamour Factory
7. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland: Romancing through History
8. Jean Harlow: Tragic Blonde
9. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: Modernizing Class
10. Myrna Loy and William Powell: The Perfect Screen Couple
11. Clark Gable: The King of Hollywood
In the Wings
Works Cited
Contributors
Index