Flickers of Desire
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-5015-2 (ISBN)
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.
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
Reihe/Serie | Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema |
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Co-Autor | Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini, Mark Cooper, Scott Curtis |
Zusatzinfo | 48 |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 513 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-5015-7 / 0813550157 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-5015-2 / 9780813550152 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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