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    Idols of Modernity
    Movie Stars of the 1920s

    Patrice Petro (Edited by), Patrice Petro (Introduction by), Scott Curtis (Contributions by), Mary Desjardins (Contributions by), Lucy Fischer (Contributions by), Krin Gabbard (Contributions by), Gerd Gemunden (Contributions by), Lea Jacobs (Contributions by), Amy Lawrence (Contributions by), Paula J. Massood (Contributions by), Joanna E. Rapf (Contributions by), Yiman Wang (Contributions by), Charles Wolfe (Contributions by)

    9780813547329

    Paperback / softback, published 4 March 2010

    328 pages, 50 photographs
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.481 kg

    "A collection of fascinating, stellar essays on the emerging culture of celebrity during the 1920s. Highly recommended."
    (Choice)
    "Incisive, elegantly crafted essays chronicling the major figures in the first years of the star system. Idols of Modernity is a rigorous, insightful, and refreshing look at the stars of the 1920s, the world in which they lived, the directors, producers and studios who shaped their public image, and the audiences who flocked to see their films."
    (Screening the Past)
    "A collection of fascinating, stellar essays on the emerging culture of celebrity during the 1920s. Highly recommended."
    (Choice)
    "Incisive, elegantly crafted essays chronicling the major figures in the first years of the star system. Idols of Modernity is a rigorous, insightful, and refreshing look at the stars of the 1920s, the world in which they lived, the directors, producers and studios who shaped their public image, and the audiences who flocked to see their films."
    (Screening the Past)

    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 oncinemaand 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.

    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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