Flickers of desire
Subtitle: movie stars of the 1910s
By: edited by Jennifer M. Bean
Series: Star decades: American culture/American cinema
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780813550145; 9780813550152
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : stars in the 1910s / Jennifer M. Bean; title: G. W. Anderson: "Broncho Billy" Among the Early "Picture Personalities" / Richard Abel; title: Mary Pickford: Icon of Stardom / Christine Gledhill; title: Lillian Gish : clean, and white, and pure as the lily / Kristen Hatch; title: Sessue Hayakawa : the mirror, the racialized body, and photogénie / Daisuke Miyao; title: Theda Bara : orientalism, sexual anarchy, and the Jewish star / Gaylyn Studlar; title: Geraldine Farrar : a star from another medium / Anne Morey; title: George Beban : character of the picturesque / Giorgio Bertellini; title: Pearl white and Grace Cunard : the serial queen's volatile present / Mark Garrett Cooper; title: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle : comedy's starring scapegoat / Rob King; title: Douglas Fairbanks : icon of Americanism / Scott Curtis; title: Charles Chaplin : the object life of mass culture / Jennifer M. Bean; title: In the wings / Jennifer M. Bean.