Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s
(Part of the Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema Series)
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Today, we are so accustomed to consuming the amplified lives of film stars that the origins of the phenomenon may seem inevitable in retrospect. But 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813550157
ISBN13:9780813550152
Release Date:August 2011
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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