Working with a varied and untraditional cast of characters--Wyatt Earp, Jack London, Clara Bow, Gertrude Stein, and Ida Lupino--author Marsha Orgeron examines the Hollywood ambitions of a fading western legend, a successful popular author, a poor Brooklyn girl turned flapper icon, a self-proclaimed avant-garde genius, and a frustrated actress on her way to becoming a director. Investigating their separate involvements with the expanding film industry, Orgeron illustrates the implications of film celebrity during the era in which cinema's impact was first felt. The aspirations of these individuals demonstrate the unifying role that the American motion picture capital played in shaping cultural notions of reputation, success, glamour, and visibility. Through extensive and unprecedented primary research and illuminating analyses of films, texts, and personal writings, each chapter provides new insight into its subject's dealings in the mythic city. Hollywood Ambitions affords a unique understanding of the tremendous diversity of the Hollywood experience and its allure in the first half of the cinematic century.
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"Hollywood Ambitions is a fascinating study of how the cultural idea of Hollywood transformed notions of success, reputation, and celebrity in the first half of the twentieth-century."--Joanna Rapf, Quarterly Review of Film and Video
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"We know that Hollywood captured the imagination of Clara Bow and Ida Lupino, but Marsha Orgeron surprises us in her revelation that Wyatt Earp, Jack London, and even Gertrude Stein were caught up in the excitement. Here is a most original study of how celebrity aspiration crossed the high-low divide." (Jane Gaines, professor of literature and English, Duke University )
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Betty Lou, Jack London, Clara Bow, Van Vechten, Hearts of Three, Wyatt Earp, Bosworth Incorporated, Rethinking Authorship, The Bigamist, Redirecting Reputation, New Woman, The Hitch-Hiker, Gertrude Stein, Los Angeles, Everybody's Autobiography, While Earp, Martin Eden, Moving Picture World, Wild West, Celebrities Monthly, The Sea Wolf, United States, New York, Transatlantic Interview, Warner Bros Browse Sample Pages:
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