| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
movie stars of the 1910s |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
BeanJennifer M., 1968- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
New Brunswick, N.J. |
| Published: |
Rutgers University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (x, 297 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Star decades: American culture/American cinema |
| Subject: |
Motion picture actors and actresses - Biography - United States - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813550725/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780813550725electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0813550726electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813550145hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813550152pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction : stars in the 1910s / Jennifer M. Bean -- G. W. Anderson: "Broncho Billy" Amongthe 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 / AnneMorey -- 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 / ScottCurtis -- Charles Chaplin : the object life of mass culture / JenniferM. Bean -- In the wings / Jennifer M. Bean |