Silent Stars
by Basinger, Jeanine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New in New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679438408
- ISBN 13
- 9780679438403
- Seller
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf Publisher. New in New dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679438408 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition with no discernible wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "From one of America's most renowned film scholars: 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 misperceived, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten. Here is Valentino, "the Sheik," who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded as; Mary Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies, unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original "Phantom" and "Hunchback," Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Here, too, is the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks; and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin. This is the first book to anatomize the major silent players, reconstruct their careers, and give us a sense of what those films, those stars, and that Hollywood were all about. An absolutely essential text for anyone seriously interested in movies, and, with more than three hundred photographs, as much a treat to look at as it is to read."; 7.25 X 1.5 X 9.75 inches; 512 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Dr. Bookman - All Books Tightly Packaged in Cardboard (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27398
- Title
- Silent Stars
- Author
- Basinger, Jeanine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679438408
- ISBN 13
- 9780679438403
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Publisher
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0679438408, Silent Movie Stars, Silent Movies, Hollywood History, Film History, Film Studies
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