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Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s

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Edited and with an introduction by Patrice Petro
2010
Published by: Rutgers University Press
Series: Star Decades: American Culture/American
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With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound. Bringing together the best new work on cinema and stardom in the 1920s, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, institutional, and aesthetic issues at work in American cinema of this time.

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Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments/Introduction

pp. ix-20

1. Douglas Fairbanks: King of Hollywood

pp. 21-40

2. Buster Keaton: Comic Invention and the Art of Moving Pictures

pp. 41-64

3. The Talmadge Sisters: A Forgotten Filmmaking Dynasty

pp. 65-86

4. Rudolph Valentino: Italian American

pp. 87-107

5. An Appetite for Living: Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow

pp. 108-136

6. Greta Garbo: Fashioning a Star Image

pp. 137-158

7. Anna May Wong: Toward Janus-Faced, Border-Crossing, "Minor" Stardom

pp. 159-181

8. Emil Jannings: Translating the Star

pp. 182-201

9. Al Jolson: The Man Who Changed the Movies Forever

pp. 202-226

10. African American Stardom Inside and Outside of Hollywood: Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry

pp. 227-249

11. Marie Dressler: Theif of the Talkies

pp. 250-269

In the Wings

pp. 270-283

Works Cited

pp. 285-296

Contributors

pp. 297-299

Index

pp. 301-313
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