The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr (Hardcover)

Mark Archuleta

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Edité par University of North Texas Press,U.S., Denton, 2025

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Hardcover. In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr were not surprised. Before becoming a matinee idol, Starr had been the greatest bank robber of the horseback bandit era. Born in 1873, Cherokee outlaw Henry Starr had survived shootouts and death sentences and lived long enough to witness the invention of moving pictures. In 1919, after Starr was released from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, a hotshot movie producer convinced him he had the looks, charisma, and wild and woolly life story to become the next big movie star. When filming began in 1920, powerful organizations aligned to censor Starr, attempting to prevent him from exposing Oklahomas corrupt legal system and the governments mistreatment of the Cherokee. The Women's Christian Temperance Union pressured theater owners to ban his film, state and federal lawmakers drafted legislation to stymie theatrical distribution, and police and district attorneys threatened to send him back to prison. Starr's only film, the biographical movie A Debtor to the Law, is lost to history, but through surviving memorabilia, newspaper accounts, and interviews with people who worked with him on set, author Mark Archuleta traces how the reformed gentleman bandit attempted to use the power of cinema to reframe his life story and redeem himself in the eyes of the public, his family, and the Cherokee Nation. The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr is about more than heists and Hollywood glamor. Starrs journey is about the American myth of reinvention, recidivism, and the founding of the motion picture industry when racial tensions were simmering to a boil. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr (Hardcover)
Auteur
Mark Archuleta
Éditeur
University of North Texas Press,U.S., Denton
Année de publication
2025
État de l'article
new
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Hardcover
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1574419781
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781574419788

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