Silent Stars

Basinger, Jeanine

ISBN 10: 0679438408 / ISBN 13: 9780679438403

Edité par Knopf, 1999

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Synopsis :

Book by Basinger Jeanine

Présentation de l'éditeur: Film scholar Jeanine Basinger offers a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misrepresented, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten. Included are Valentino, ""the Sheik,"" who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded; Mary Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies, unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original ""Phantom"" and ""Hunchback,"" Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Basinger also includes the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks; and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Silent Stars
Éditeur : Knopf
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Good