Idols of Modernity
Movie Stars of the 1920s
By Amy Lawrence, Charles Wolfe, Gerd Gemunden, Joanna E. Rapf, Krin Gabbard, Lea Jacobs, Lucy Fischer, Mary Desjardins, Patrice Petro, Paula J. Massood, Scott Curtis, Yiman Wang | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
About the book
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. Attentive to stardom as an ensemble of texts, contexts, and social phenomena stretching beyond the cinema, major scholars provide careful analysis of the careers of both well-known and now forgotten stars of the silent and early sound era—Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, the Talmadge sisters, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Greta Garbo, Anna May Wong, Emil Jannings, Al Jolson, Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, Lincoln Perry, and Marie Dressler.
Editions of Idols of Modernity
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780813547329
- EBook
- ISBN 9780813580104
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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. Attentive to stardom as an ensemble of texts, contexts, and social phenomena stretching beyond the cinema, major scholars provide careful analysis of the careers of both well-known and now forgotten stars of the silent and early sound era—Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, the Talmadge sisters, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Greta Garbo, Anna May Wong, Emil Jannings, Al Jolson, Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, Lincoln Perry, and Marie Dressler.
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What is Idols of Modernity about?
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. Attentive to stardom as an ensemble of texts, contexts, and social phenomena stretching beyond the cinema, major scholars provide careful analysis of the careers of both well-known and now forgotten stars of the silent and early sound era—Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, the Talmadge sisters, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Greta Garbo, Anna May Wong, Emil Jannings, Al Jolson, Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, Lincoln Perry, and Marie Dressler.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Idols of Modernity?
The Arts > Performing arts > Films, cinema
Where can I read a sample of Idols of Modernity?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780813547329
Is Idols of Modernity part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Idols of Modernity?
Amy Lawrence, Charles Wolfe, Gerd Gemunden, Joanna E. Rapf, Krin Gabbard, Lea Jacobs, Lucy Fischer, Mary Desjardins, Patrice Petro, Paula J. Massood, Scott Curtis, Yiman Wang
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Idols of Modernity is available as paperback(ISBN 9780813547329) and ebook(ISBN 9780813580104)
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