Editor: Bean, Jennifer
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Single-User Purchase Price:
$72.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$108.00
ISBN: 978-0-8135-5015-2
Category: Arts & Leisure - Film & Television
Image Count:
65
Book Status: Available
Flickers of Desire explores the emergence of a 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.