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Auteur(s) : Tibbetts, John C. (1946-....)
Welsh, James M. (1938-2013)
Titre(s) : Douglas Fairbanks and the American century [Texte imprimé] / John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow
Publication : Jackson, Miss. : University press of Mississippi, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : xxii, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : Machine generated contents note: pt. I ODYSSEY OF A SPRING LAMB ; ch. 1 "Windows
Are the Only Doors": The First Films (The Lamb, 1915, and. Double Trouble, 1915)
; ch. 2 "The Leap to Greatness": The Years at Triangle, Artcraft, United Artists,
1916 ; 919 ; ch. 3 "Arizona Jim": The Fairbanks Westerns, 1916 ; 920 ; ch. 4 "Her
Picture in the Papers": Mary Pickford's "Growing Girl" ; ch. 5 "On an Odd Note":
Say, Young Fellow! (1918), The Nut (1920), and When the Clouds Roll By (1919) ; pt.
II "THE IMPERIAL REACH" ; ch. 6 Prologue ; ch. 7 "The Mark of Greatness": The Adventures
of Senor Zorro ; ch. 8 "A Dance of Free Men in the Forest": Robin Hood ; ch. 9 "Architecture
in Motion": The Thief of Bagdad ; ch. 10 "A Painted Ship on a Painted Ocean": The
Black Pirate ; ch. 11 "Dumas, Douglas, and Delirium": Fairbanks and the Musketeers
; ch. 12 "The Fall from Grace": The Gaucho ; pt. III DOUG AND MARY FIND THEIR VOICES
; ch. 13 Coquette: Goodbye to the Glad Girl ;
Contents note continued: ch. 14 A Shrewd Adaptation: The Taming of the Shrew ; pt.
IV ARTISTS AND HUSBANDS ; ch. 15 Prologue ; ch. 16 Reaching for the Moon ; ch.
17 Around the World in Eighty Minutes ; ch. 18 Mr. Robinson Crusoe ; ch. 19 The
Private Life of Don Juan.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-431) and index
"Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie
star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak,
in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American
Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews
in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of
films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is
a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks's last silent film, The
Iron Mask. Fairbanks was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century,
whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism,
at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his sairic
comedy-adventures shadow-boxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters
managed to combine the American Easterner's experience and pretension and the Westerner's
promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat
and the New World self-made man--tied to tradition yet emancipated from history--he
constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility.
This is the most compete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks,
one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original
United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith).
John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh's text is especially rich in its coverage of the
early years of the star's career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films
previously considered lost"
Sujet(s) : Fairbanks, Douglas (1883-1939) -- Critique et interprétation
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 28092 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Jeu et interprétation - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781628460063 (hardback). - ISBN 1628460067 (hardback). - ISBN 9781628460070
(erroné) (ebook). - ISBN 1626741476 (electronic bk.). - ISBN 9781626741478 (electronic
bk.). - ISBN 1626741484 (electronic bk.). - ISBN 9781626741485 (electronic bk.). -
ISBN 1626741492 (electronic bk.). - ISBN 9781626741492 (electronic bk.)
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Notice n° :
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