Idols of modernity : movie stars of the 1920s / edited by Patrice Petro.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index.

Douglas Fairbanks : king of Hollywood -- Buster Keaton : comic invention and the art of moving pictures -- The Talmadge sisters : a forgotten filmmaking dynasty -- Rudolph Valentino : Italian American -- An appetite for living : Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow -- Greta Garbo : fashioning a star image -- Anna May Wong : toward Janus-faced, border-crossing, "minor" stardom -- Emil Jannings : translating the star -- Al Jolson : the man who changed the movies forever -- African American stardom inside and outside of Hollywood : Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry -- Marie Dressler : thief of the talkies -- In the wings.

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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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