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Twilight of the idols [[electronic resource] ] : Hollywood and the human sciences in 1920s America / / Mark Lynn Anderson



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Autore: Anderson Mark Lynn <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Twilight of the idols [[electronic resource] ] : Hollywood and the human sciences in 1920s America / / Mark Lynn Anderson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
Disciplina: 384/.80973
Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States
Popular culture - United States
Motion picture industry - United States - History - 20th century
Motion picture actors and actresses - United States
Celebrities - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Early Hollywood Scandals and the Death of Wallace Reid -- 2. Psychoanalysis and Fandom in the Leopold and Loeb Trial -- 3. Queer Valentino -- 4. Black Valentino -- 5. Mabel Normand and the Ends of Error -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Twilight of the Idols revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars-Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel Normand among them-Mark Lynn Anderson shows how the era's celebrity culture shaped public ideas about personality and human conduct and played a pivotal role in the emergent human sciences of psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Anderson looks at motion picture stars who embodied various forms of deviance-narcotic addiction, criminality, sexual perversion, and racial indeterminacy. He considers how the studios profited from popularizing ideas about deviance, and how the debates generated by the early Hollywood scandals continue to affect our notions of personality, sexuality, and public morals.
Titolo autorizzato: Twilight of the idols  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-94942-0
9786613278081
1-283-27808-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463128303321
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