Cecil B. DeMille and American culture : the silent era /

Main Author: Higashi, Sumiko.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Lasky Company and Highbrow Culture: Authorship Versus Intertextuality
  • Self-Theatricalization in Victorian Pictorial Dramaturgy: What's His Name
  • The Lower East Side as Spectacle: Class and Ethnicity in the Urban Landscape
  • The Screen As Display Window: Constructing the "New Woman"
  • The Historical Epic and Progressive Era Civic Pageantry: Joan the Woman
  • Set and Costume Design as Spectacle in a Consumer Culture: The Early Jazz Age Films
  • Demille's Exodus from Famous Players-Lasky: the Ten Commandments (1923).