Flickers of desire : movie stars of the 1910s /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Star decades: American culture/American cinema.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : stars in the 1910s / Jennifer M. Bean
- G. W. Anderson: "Broncho Billy" Among the Early "Picture Personalities" / Richard Abel
- Mary Pickford: Icon of Stardom / Christine Gledhill
- Lillian Gish : clean, and white, and pure as the lily / Kristen Hatch
- Sessue Hayakawa : the mirror, the racialized body, and photogenie / Daisuke Miyao
- Theda Bara : orientalism, sexual anarchy, and the Jewish star / Gaylyn Studlar
- Geraldine Farrar : a star from another medium / Anne Morey
- George Beban : character of the picturesque / Giorgio Bertellini
- Pearl white and Grace Cunard : the serial queen's volatile present / Mark Garrett Cooper
- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle : comedy's starring scapegoat / Rob King
- Douglas Fairbanks : icon of Americanism / Scott Curtis
- Charles Chaplin : the object life of mass culture / Jennifer M. Bean
- In the wings / Jennifer M. Bean.