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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Agata FrymusPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.003kg ISBN: 9781978806085ISBN 10: 1978806086 Pages: 244 Publication Date: 17 April 2020 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents 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 Storm” 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 IndexReviewsAn excellent piece of film history, brilliantly researched and eloquently narrated, Damsels and Divas Sheds new light on well-known figures, while bringing less familiar stars back into the spotlight. And engages with some of the most exciting scholarship about 1920s American cinema, the study of celebrity and representations of the female body, ethnicity and Europeanness. --Andrew Higson co-editor of Film Europe and Film America """An excellent piece of film history, brilliantly researched and eloquently narrated, Damsels and Divas Sheds new light on well-known figures, while bringing less familiar stars back into the spotlight. It engages with some of the most exciting scholarship about 1920s American cinema, the study of celebrity and representations of the female body, ethnicity and Europeanness."" -- Andrew Higson * co-editor of Film Europe and Film America * ""Written with engaging clarity and scholarly vigour and founded on first-class archival research, Damsels and Divas is a hugely welcome addition to scholarship on Hollywood stardom in the 1920s. The book shines much-needed light on the extraordinary careers of European female stars Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal as well as the discourses of ethnicity, gender and class that shaped the firmament in which they, as Frymus puts it, ‘shone briefly, but very brightly’."" -- Michael Williams * author of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past * Lights, Camera, Author! podcast interview with Agata Frymus https://anchor.fm/the-junot-files/episodes/Lights--Camera--Author--26---Agata-Frymus-ecvpra * Lights, Camera, Author! * ""An engaging writing style [and a] varied and highly accessible choice of artefacts for analysis."" * Early Popular Visual Culture * ""The immense amount of archival research Frymus has undertaken is evident throughout, along with the wonderful accompanying images, such as film stills, postcards, magazine articles and full-page colour photographs of magazine covers. Moreover, the vast range of notes supplementing each chapter is also impressive. A fascinating review study of similar but different European stars who worked during Hollywood’s early years and is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding work on film stars and extrafilmic material."" * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television * ""Damsels and Divas ranks with the work of Richard Dyer and Jeanine Basinger as a valuable star study. Highly recommended."" * Choice * ""Damsels and Divas carves out a space next to Paula Marantz Cohen’s Silent Stars and the Triumph of the American Myth (2001) in regard to silent era stardom and its relationship to the national imaginary."" * Quarterly Review of Film and Video * ""An excellent piece of film history, brilliantly researched and eloquently narrated, Damsels and Divas Sheds new light on well-known figures, while bringing less familiar stars back into the spotlight. It engages with some of the most exciting scholarship about 1920s American cinema, the study of celebrity and representations of the female body, ethnicity and Europeanness."" -- Andrew Higson * co-editor of Film Europe and Film America * ""Written with engaging clarity and scholarly vigour and founded on first-class archival research, Damsels and Divas is a hugely welcome addition to scholarship on Hollywood stardom in the 1920s. The book shines much-needed light on the extraordinary careers of European female stars Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal as well as the discourses of ethnicity, gender and class that shaped the firmament in which they, as Frymus puts it, ‘shone briefly, but very brightly’."" -- Michael Williams * author of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past * Lights, Camera, Author! podcast interview with Agata Frymus https://anchor.fm/the-junot-files/episodes/Lights--Camera--Author--26---Agata-Frymus-ecvpra * Lights, Camera, Author! * ""An engaging writing style [and a] varied and highly accessible choice of artefacts for analysis."" * Early Popular Visual Culture * ""The immense amount of archival research Frymus has undertaken is evident throughout, along with the wonderful accompanying images, such as film stills, postcards, magazine articles and full-page colour photographs of magazine covers. Moreover, the vast range of notes supplementing each chapter is also impressive. A fascinating review study of similar but different European stars who worked during Hollywood’s early years and is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding work on film stars and extrafilmic material."" * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television * ""Damsels and Divas ranks with the work of Richard Dyer and Jeanine Basinger as a valuable star study. Highly recommended."" * Choice * ""Damsels and Divas carves out a space next to Paula Marantz Cohen’s Silent Stars and the Triumph of the American Myth (2001) in regard to silent era stardom and its relationship to the national imaginary."" * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *" Author InformationAgata Frymus is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Ghent, Belgium. Agata’s research concentrates on the relationship between race and silent film. Her work has been published in Early Popular Visual Culture, Celebrity Studies and Cinema Journal. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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