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Idols of modernity :

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0813547318

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0813547326

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9780813547312

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9780813547329

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Title Proper

Idols of modernity :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

movie stars of the 1920s /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Patrice Petro

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 313 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Series Title

Star decades: American culture/American cinema

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Introduction: stardom in the 1920s / Patrice Petro -- Douglas Fairbanks: king of Hollywood / Scott Curtis -- Buster Keaton: comic invention and the art of moving pictures / Charles Wolfe -- The Talmadge sisters: a forgotten filmmaking dynasty / Lea Jacobs -- Rudolph Valentino: Italian American / Amy Lawrence -- An appetite for living: Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow / Mary Desjardins -- Greta Garbo: fashioning a star image / Lucy Fischer -- Anna May Wong: toward Janus-faced, border-crossing, "minor" stardom / Yiman Wang -- Emil Jannings: translating the star / Gerd Gemünden -- Al Jolson: the man who changed the movies forever / Krin Gabbard -- African American stardom inside and outside of Hollywood: Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry / Paula J. Massood -- Marie Dressler: thief of the talkies / Joanna E. Rapf -- In the wings / Patrice Petro

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Text of Note

Focusing on stardom during the 1920s, this title reveals strong connections & dissonances in matters of storytelling & performance that can be traced both backwards & forwards, from the silent era to the emergence of sound

Motion picture actors and actresses-- United States, Biography

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Book number

Petro, Patrice,1957-

Date of Transaction

20110406154319.0

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[Book]

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