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" Idols of modernity : "
edited by Patrice Petro
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BL
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636186
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| Title & Author
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Idols of modernity : : movie stars of the 1920s /\ edited by Patrice Petro
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| Series Statement
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Star decades: American culture/American cinema
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ix, 313 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780813547312
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: 9780813547329
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: 0813547318
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: 0813547326
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: stardom in the 1920s / Patrice Petro -- Douglas Fairbanks: king of Hollywood / Scott Curtis -- Buster Keaton: comic invention and the art of moving pictures / Charles Wolfe -- The Talmadge sisters: a forgotten filmmaking dynasty / Lea Jacobs -- Rudolph Valentino: Italian American / Amy Lawrence -- An appetite for living: Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow / Mary Desjardins -- Greta Garbo: fashioning a star image / Lucy Fischer -- Anna May Wong: toward Janus-faced, border-crossing, "minor" stardom / Yiman Wang -- Emil Jannings: translating the star / Gerd Gemünden -- Al Jolson: the man who changed the movies forever / Krin Gabbard -- African American stardom inside and outside of Hollywood: Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry / Paula J. Massood -- Marie Dressler: thief of the talkies / Joanna E. Rapf -- In the wings / Patrice Petro
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| Abstract
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Focusing on stardom during the 1920s, this title reveals strong connections & dissonances in matters of storytelling & performance that can be traced both backwards & forwards, from the silent era to the emergence of sound
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Motion picture actors and actresses-- United States, Biography
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| LC Classification
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PN1998.2.I36 2010
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Petro, Patrice,1957-
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