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Glamour in a
Golden Age
Price: $24.95
Subtitle:
Movie Stars of the
1930s
Editor: Adrienne
L. McLean
Subject: Film, American
Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4905-7
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4904-0
Pages:
296 pages, 61 photographs
Publication Date: February 2011
Series:
Star
Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
Description:
Shirley Temple,
Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, Marlene
Dietrich and Greta Garbo, William Powell and Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow,
and Gary Cooper—Glamour in a Golden
Age 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 to
become recognized and admired—sometimes even notorious—parts of the
cultural landscape. Using archival and popular material, including fan
and mass market magazines, other promotional and publicity material,
and of course films themselves, contributors also discuss other artists
who were incredibly popular at the time, among them Ann Harding, Ruth
Chatterton, Nancy Carroll, Kay Francis, and Constance Bennett.
About the Author:
ADRIENNE L. McLEAN is a professor of film studies at the
University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body,
and Narrative Cinema and Being
Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom, and the
coeditor of Headline Hollywood: A
Century of Film Scandal (all Rutgers University Press).
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