Picture Personalities: The Emergence of the Star System in America [*SIGNED*]
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[no significant wear to book, downgraded from Fine only because of the previous owner's name in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket appears to be faded along the spine, but has no oth...
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[no significant wear to book, downgraded from Fine only because of the previous owner's name in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket appears to be faded along the spine, but has no other significant wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the verso of the front endpaper (to the same person whose name is written at the top corner of the front endpaper). "Using a model of enunciation, [the author] argues convincingly that the origins of movie stardom lie within a star system and a system of discourse developed by the fledgling movie industry and the press." The study, focused on the period between 1907 and the early 1920s, examines how "during the teens the private lives of the stars became a focus of public interest, and the studios worked to fabricate a moral image of the stars' marriages and personal lives [and] shows how that image was constituted and how it began to be challenged in the twenties by a series of star scandals, including Mary Pickford's divorce and hasty marriage to Douglas Fairbanks and Fatty Arbuckle's trial for the murder of Virginia Rappe." Signed by Author
Product Info
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: (c.1990)
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
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