Go west, young women! [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of early Hollywood / / Hilary A. Hallett

• Autore: Hallett Hilary A. <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6522
• Soggetto topico: Women in the motion picture industry - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century; Motion picture actors and actresses - California - Los Angeles; Motion pictures and women - United States
• Soggetto geografico: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) History 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th century film history; 20th century women; academic books; american history; birth of los angeles; book club reads; books for film lovers; books for history lovers; discrimination of women; discussion books; early modern american history; easy to read; educational books; feminism; film capital of the united states; gender studies; history of hollywood; hollywood sex scandal; learning while reading; men and women; modern gender roles; page turner; post war cinema industry; sex; the great war
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes filmography.
• Nota di contenuto: Along the road to Hollywood: landscapes "in motion-picture land". "Oh for a girl who could ride a horse like pearl white": the actress democratizes fame -- Women-made women: writing the "movies" before Hollywood -- Melodramas of Hollywood's birth: the postwar revolution in morals and manners, redux. Hollywood bohemia -- The movie menace -- A star is born: rereading Hollywood's first sex scandal -- Conclusion: the girl from Hollywood.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a "New Woman." Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford's rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post-World War I years that culminated in Hollywood's first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.
• Titolo autorizzato: Go west, young women
• ISBN: 1-283-89179-4; 0-520-95368-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822115003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II