Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. G. M.Anderson: “Broncho Billy” among the Early “Picture
Personalities”
2. Mary Pickford: Icon of Stardom
3. Lillian Gish: Clean, and White, and Pure as the Lily
4. Sessue Hayakawa:The Mirror, the Racialized Body, and
Photogénie
5. Theda Bara: Orientalism, Sexual Anarchy, and the Jewish Star
6. Geraldine Farrar:A Star from Another Medium
7. George Beban: Character of the Picturesque
8. Pearl White and Grace Cunard:The Serial Queen’s Volatile
Present
9. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle: Comedy’s Starring Scapegoat
10. Douglas Fairbanks: Icon of Americanism
11. Charles Chaplin:The Object Life of Mass Culture
In the Wings
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
Jennifer M. Bean is the director of the cinema studies program and an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington. She is coeditor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema and a recipient of the prestigious Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
"Finally, in the ongoing series 'Star Decades,' arrives the volume
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"Finally, in the ongoing series 'Star Decades,' arrives the volume
on the delightful and original decade of the 1910s--a book that
takes the reader back to yesteryear for the earliest luminaries of
the celestial Hollywood heavens, even before Hollywood. Bean wraps
up this fascinating study of the historical evolution of these
cinematic icons with previews of coming stars. Highly
recommended."
*Choice*
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