Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s by Anne Morey, Richard Abel, Rob King, Christine Gledhill, Gaylyn Studlar, Daisuke Miyao, Giorgio Bertellini, Kristen Whissel, Scott Curtis, Kristen Grant, Jennifer M. Bean

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Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s

Anne Morey, Richard Abel, Rob King, Christine Gledhill, Gaylyn Studlar, Daisuke Miyao, Giorgio Bertellini, Kristen Whissel, Scott Curtis, Kristen Grant, Jennifer M. Bean

297 pages • hardcover • 2 editions

nonfiction art history informative medium-paced

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Today, we are so accustomed to consuming the amplified lives of film stars that the origins of the phenomenon may seem inevitable in retrospect. But the conjunction of the terms "movie" and "star" was inconceivable prior to the 1910s. Flickers of ...