This Mad Masquerade

This Mad Masquerade

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In this highly readable and engaging study, Studlar selects four roughly contemporaneous movie idols---Douglas Fairbanks, John Barrymore, Rudolph Valentino, and Lon Chaney---and examines the ways in which they produced masculinity within respective cultural contexts of boy culture, the 'matinee girls' of the late Victorian theater, dance, and freak shows.

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Studlar looks at four major Hollywood male stars of the silent era--Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, John Barrymore, and Lon Chaney--to illuminate the cultural, ideological, and historical implications of these stars in relation to contemporary debates over changing sexual and social norms.

This Mad Masquerade

This Mad Masquerade,Gaylyn Studlar,Columbia University Press,0231103212,Acting & Auditioning,American - Hispanic American,Film & Video - General,Men in motion pictures,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Sex role in motion pictures,Sociology

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