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actors
actresses
Author_Mark Lynn Anderson
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celebrity
celebrity culture
cinema
criminality
cultural narratives
deviance
drug abuse
drug addiction
early hollywood
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film
film history
gossip
history
hollywood
jazz age
mabel normand
media
miscegenation
mixed race
morality
movie stars
narcotics
nonfiction
performing arts
pop culture
public morals
race
racial indeterminacy
racism
rudolph valentino
scandal
sexual norms
sexual perversion
sexuality
social norms
star system
stars
wallace reid
Product details
- ISBN 9780520267084
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Twilight of the Idols" revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars - Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel Normand among them - Mark Lynn Anderson shows how the era's celebrity culture shaped public ideas about personality and human conduct and played a pivotal role in the emergent human sciences of psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Anderson looks at motion picture stars who embodied various forms of deviance - narcotic addiction, criminality, sexual perversion, and racial indeterminacy. He considers how the studios profited from popularizing ideas about deviance, and how the debates generated by the early Hollywood scandals continue to affect our notions of personality, sexuality, and public morals.
Mark Lynn Anderson is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
