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Availability:In StockContributor:Jeanine BasingerPublish date:2000-11-01Pages:510
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819564511ISBN-10:819564516UPC:9780819564511Book Category:Performing Arts, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Film, Entertainment & Performing ArtsBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.23 x 7.00 x 1.04 inchesWeight:1.8122Product ID:SC4GTB4BNN

Silent Stars

An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film.

Film scholar Jeanine Basinger offers a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misrepresented, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten.

Included are Valentino, "the Sheik," who...



Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819564511ISBN-10:819564516UPC:9780819564511Book Category:Performing Arts, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Film, Entertainment & Performing ArtsBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.23 x 7.00 x 1.04 inchesWeight:1.8122Product ID:SC4GTB4BNN

JEANINE BASINGER is Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and Curator of Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University. Her many books on film include A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930 - 1960 (1995), American Cinema (1994), The "It's a Wonderful Life" Book (1990), and The World War II Combat Film (1986).


Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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