04213nam 2200697Ia 450 991045826980332120200520144314.01-282-56247-91-78034-787-197866125624710-8135-4929-910.36019/9780813549293(CKB)2560000000014679(EBL)867803(OCoLC)641586504(SSID)ssj0000420228(PQKBManifestationID)11271097(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000420228(PQKBWorkID)10392727(PQKB)10098348(MiAaPQ)EBC867803(MdBmJHUP)muse8103(DE-B1597)530407(DE-B1597)9780813549293(Au-PeEL)EBL867803(CaPaEBR)ebr10386166(CaONFJC)MIL256247(EXLCZ)99256000000001467920090528d2010 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrIdols of modernity[electronic resource] movie stars of the 1920s /edited by Patrice PetroNew Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Pressc20101 online resource (324 p.)Star Decades: American Culture/AmericanDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4731-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Stardom in the 1920's /Petro, Patrice --1. Douglas Fairbanks: King of Hollywood /Curtis, Scott --2. Buster Keaton: Comic Invention and the Art of Moving Pictures /Wolfe, Charles --3. The Talmadge Sisters: A Forgotten Filmmaking Dynasty /Jacobs, Lea --4. Rudolph Valentino: Italian American /Lawrence, Amy --5. An Appetite for Living: Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow /Desjardins, Mary --6. Greta Garbo: Fashioning a Star Image /Fischer, Lucy --7. Anna May Wong: Toward Janus-Faced, Border-Crossing, "Minor" Stardom /Wang, Yiman --8. Emil Jannings: Translating the Star /Gemünden, Gerd --9. Al Jolson: The Man Who Changed the Movies Forever /Gabbard, Krin --10. African American Stardom Inside and Outside of Hollywood: Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry /Massood, Paula J. --11. Marie Dressler: Thief of the Talkies /Rapf, Joanna E. --In the Wings /Petro, Patrice --Works Cited --Contributors --IndexWith its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920's, 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 1920's, 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.Motion picture actors and actressesUnited StatesBiographyActorsUnited StatesBiographyActressesUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.Motion picture actors and actressesActorsActresses791.4302/80922BPetro Patrice, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.561175Petro Patrice1957-561175MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458269803321Idols of modernity2489263UNINA