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Acting for the Silent Screen: Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars
Chris O´rourke
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 3JJG; ANC; APF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to perform in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might have considered a 'low' art. Stories like these were the stuff of newspaper headlines in 1920s and reflected a 'craze' for the cinema. They also demonstrated radical changes in attitudes and values within society in the wake of World War I.Chris O'Rourke investigates the myths and material practices that grew up around film actors during the silent era. The ... Read more
A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to perform in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might have considered a 'low' art. Stories like these were the stuff of newspaper headlines in 1920s and reflected a 'craze' for the cinema. They also demonstrated radical changes in attitudes and values within society in the wake of World War I.Chris O'Rourke investigates the myths and material practices that grew up around film actors during the silent era. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Cinema and Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784532796
SKU
V9781784532796
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About Chris O´rourke
Chris O'Rourke is Lecturer in Film & TV History at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has published widely on aspects of British cinema history, in particular the silent film period, including contributions to the DVD release of Shooting Stars (BFI, 2016).
Reviews for Acting for the Silent Screen: Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars
O'Rourke has significantly broadened our understanding of the contours of British film culture in the 1920s and '30s, showing how filmmakers, agents, publicists, publishers, novelists and journalists simultaneously encouraged, castigated and cynically exploited a nascent mass yearning for screen stardom.
Jon Burrows, University of Warwick (03/03/2017) With flare and imagination, this book traces the debates about the professionalization of ... Read more
Jon Burrows, University of Warwick (03/03/2017) With flare and imagination, this book traces the debates about the professionalization of ... Read more