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Informationen zum Autor Bean, Jennifer M Klappentext The conjunction of the terms "movie" and "star" was inconceivable prior to the 1910s. Flickers of Desire explores the emergence of this mass cultural phenomenon, asking how and why a cinema that did not even run screen credits developed so quickly into a venue in which performers became the American film industry's most lucrative mode of product individuation. Contributors chart the rise of American cinema's first galaxy of stars through a variety of archival sources--newspaper columns, popular journals, fan magazines, cartoons, dolls, postcards, scrapbooks, personal letters, limericks, and dances. Zusammenfassung Flickers of Desire explores the emergence of this mass cultural phenomenon, asking how and why a cinema that did not even run screen credits developed so quickly into a venue in which performers became the American film industry's most lucrative mode of product individuation. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. G. M.Anderson: “Broncho Billy” among the Early “Picture Personalities”2. Mary Pickford: Icon of Stardom3. Lillian Gish: Clean, and White, and Pure as the Lily4. Sessue Hayakawa:The Mirror, the Racialized Body, and Photogénie5. Theda Bara: Orientalism, Sexual Anarchy, and the Jewish Star6. Geraldine Farrar:A Star from Another Medium7. George Beban: Character of the Picturesque8. Pearl White and Grace Cunard:The Serial Queen’s Volatile Present9. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle: Comedy’s Starring Scapegoat10. Douglas Fairbanks: Icon of Americanism11. Charles Chaplin:The Object Life of Mass CultureIn the WingsWorks CitedContributorsIndex
