Angela Dalle Vacche
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American Cinema of the 1920s
Themes and Variations
Edited by Lucy Fischer
Rutgers University Press
In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1920s examines the film industry's continued growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era that witnessed the birth of the star system that supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors, including Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Rudolph Valentino, while black performers (relegated to "race films") appeared infrequently in mainstream movies.
Diva
Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema
By Angela Dalle Vacche; Introduction by Guy Maddin
University of Texas Press
A passionate look at the figure of the diva in Italian film of the silent era, set within the visual, legal, and popular cultures surrounding the cinema before and after World War I.
- Copyright year: 2008
Cinema and Painting
How Art Is Used in Film
University of Texas Press
How the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the interplay between the arts, on the dialectic of word and image, on the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual difference, and on the tension between tradition
- Copyright year: 1996
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