Damsels and Divas : : European Stardom in Silent Hollywood / / Agata Frymus.
Damsels and Divas investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories of three movie stars: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. It combines the investigation of American fan magazines with the analysis of studio documents, and the exami...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) :; 23 B-W photographs, 7 color illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Pola Negri and Romance: “Ah Love! It’s Not for Me”
- 2 Pola Negri as the Vamp: “Temptatious Pola Assailed Picture Citadel by Stor
- 3 Vilma Bánky and Whiteness: “The Almost Perfect Anglo-Saxon Type, More English Than the English”
- 4 Vilma Bánky as the Leading Lady: “Bedecked in Flowing Gowns . . . and Layers of Pearls and Jewels”
- 5 Vilma Bánky and Marriage: “My Mother Brought Me Up to Be a Wife”
- 6 Jetta Goudal and Exoticism: “She Looks Like a Beautiful Cossack. She Looks Like an Oriental Princess”
- 7 Jetta Goudal and Mystery: “A Riddle in the City of Eager Autobiographies”
- 8 Jetta Goudal and Temperament: “The Most Temperamental Actress”
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author