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Idols of Modernity
Price: $25.95
Subtitle: Movie Stars of the
1920s
Author:
Edited and with an
introduction by Patrice Petro
Subject: Film,
American Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4732-9
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4731-2
Pages:
328 pages
Publication Date: May
2010
Series:
Star
Decades
Praise:
A collection of fascinating, stellar essays
on the emerging culture of celebrity during the 1920s. Highly
recommended.--Choice
Description:
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.
About the Author:
Patrice Petro is a
professor of English and film studies and vice provost for
international education at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, she is the
author and editor of numerous books on film, culture, and
internationalization, among them Global
Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age
(Rutgers University Press).
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