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Gloria Swanson
Tricia Welsch
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Description for Gloria Swanson
Hardcover. Shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. Series: Hollywood Legends Series. Num Pages: 480 pages, 70 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 234 x 40. Weight in Grams: 924.
Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899-1983) back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman.
Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson ... Read more
Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899-1983) back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman.
Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Series
Hollywood Legends Series
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781617037498
SKU
V9781617037498
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About Tricia Welsch
Tricia Welsch, Brunswick, Maine, is associate professor on the Marvin H. Green, Jr., Fund and chair of the film studies program at Bowdoin College. Her work has appeared in Cinema Journal, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Film Quarterly, Film Criticism, the Journal of Film and Video, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Griffithiana, and Genre.
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