Transforming Faces for the Screen : Horror and Romance in The 1920s
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| Autore: |
Randell Karen
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| Titolo: |
Transforming Faces for the Screen : Horror and Romance in The 1920s
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023 |
| ©2023 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (149 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 791.436561 |
| Altri autori: |
WeedonAlexis
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| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Transforming Faces for the Screen in the 1920s -- Who Were Elinor Glyn and Lon Chaney? -- The Masculine War-Body, Feminine Beauty and Cultural Difference -- 1920s Cosmetic Surgery and Beauty Culture in Film and Photography -- Beauty-and-the-Beast Myth and the Grotesque -- Chapter 2: Vilray Blair, MD, Lon Chaney and The Phantom of the Opera -- Facial Injury in Context -- The Fascination of Facial Injury Surgery -- Facial Injury and Film -- The Production of The Phantom of the Opera and the Anticipation of the Grotesque -- The Appearance of the Phantom -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Beauty Regimes, Facial Surgery and Elinor Glyn's Such Men Are Dangerous -- The Cosmetic Surgery and the Desire to Have 'It' -- The Moral Quandary of Surgical Transformation in 1920s Culture -- Elinor Glyn's Eternal Youth and Embodied Knowledge -- Glyn's Creative Reimagining Surgical Transformations in Story and Movie -- Such Men Are Dangerous (Hawks 1930) from the Elinor Glyn Story -- Such Men Are Dangerous as a Film about Dysmorphia, Self-transformation and Change of Identity -- Chapter 4: Masks, Prosthetics and Performance -- The Mask and the Work of Anna Coleman Ladd -- The Mask of the Red Death -- Chaney, Performance and Pain -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Unveiling Romance, Elinor Glyn's Man and Maid -- Elinor Glyn and Discourses of Female Beauty and Facial Disfigurement -- Post-war Narratives of Facial Disfigurement in Visual Culture -- The Face Radiates a Suggestion of Love: Elinor Glyn, Emile Coué and Embodied Knowledge -- Glyn's War and the Origin of Her Novel Man and Maid (1922) -- From Trauma to Romance in the Film Story of Man and Maid (Schertzinger 1925) -- Glyn's Embodied Knowledge and the First-Person Narrative in Man and Maid. |
| Chapter 6: In Conclusion, Visual Culture in the Archive -- Value of the Archive -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Transforming Faces for the Screen |
| ISBN: | 3-031-40029-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910760259803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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