Glamour in a golden age: movie stars of the 1930s
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press ©2011
Schriftenreihe:Star decades: American culture/American cinema
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Acknowledgments; Introduction: Stardom in the 1930s; 1. Not of Hollywood: Ruth Chatterton, Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Kay Francis, and Nancy Carroll; 2. Shirley Temple: Making Dreams Come True; 3. Gary Cooper: Rugged Elegance; 4. Bette Davis: Worker and Queen; 5. Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo: The Sexy Hausfrau versus the Swedish Sphinx; 6. Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford: Rivals at the Glamour Factory; 7. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland: Romancing through History; 8. Jean Harlow: Tragic Blonde; 9. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: Modernizing Class
10. Myrna Loy and William Powell: The Perfect Screen Couple11. Clark Gable: The King of Hollywood; In the Wings; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
Glamour in a Golden Age, incorporating archival and popular material, including fan and mass market magazines, other promotional and publicity material, and films themselves, presents original essays from eminent film scholars that analyze movie stars of the 1930s. Against the background of contemporary American cultural history, stardom is approached as an effect of, and influence on, the particular historical and industrial contexts that enabled these actors and actresses to be discovered, featured in films, publicized, and become recognized and admired--sometimes even notorious--par
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 297 pages)
ISBN:0813549043
0813549051
0813552338
9780813549040
9780813549057
9780813552330

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