Jeanine basinger silent stars book

Film scholar jeanine basinger offers 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 misrepresented, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten. Wesleyans film expert jeanine basinger has a new book about. Included are valentino, the sheik, who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard hes. The purpose of this book is to celebrate a group of silent film stars who are somehow forgotten, misunderstood, or underappreciated. Nov 14, 2019 a new book by jeanine basinger is cause for celebration.

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Synopsis from one of americas most renowned film scholars. Silent stars on apple books apple books apple apple. In this fantastic book, jeanine basinger investigates the lifes and careers of underappreciated, forgotten or misunderstood silent stars. The twenties became a moviedominated decade, and the silent stars its beautiful, representative citizens. 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. Jeanine basinger born 3 february 1936, a film historian. Its the perfect introduction to silent film and the world of stars who did not speak.

A cinema archivist digs into the vaults of golden era hollywood and comes up with a treasure trove of goodies. At the outset of her nearly 500page volume, silent stars, jeanine basinger, a muchpublished scholar who teaches film at wesleyan university, attempts to define the world of the silent screen. Learned and wholehearted, the book is classic basinger fare. Film scholar jeanine basinger offers a revelatory, perceptive, and hig. Basinger brings considerable expertise but insufficient adventurousness to the alltoooften neglected world of silent film. Jeanine basinger from one of americas renowned film scholars. At other schools it was pretty much an ad hoc thing, says basinger, 84, who has been teaching at wesleyan for 60 years. She is chair of the film studies program at wesleyan university and is often seen on turner classic movies making comments about cinema. No tellall, this book recreates the excitement the actors provoked while illustrating the nature of their.

She has written nine other books on film, including a womans view. Read silent stars by jeanine basinger available from rakuten kobo. Silent stars is a 1999 book by renowned film historian jeanine basinger. Film scholar jeanine basinger offers a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like chaplin. Jeanine basinger is the corwinfuller professor of film studies, founder and curator of the wesleyan cinema archives, chair of the film studies department, and a twotime recipient of wesleyans binswanger prize for excellence in teaching. Silent stars book by professor jeanine basinger 2 available. Oct 31, 2007 as jeanine basinger amply demonstrates in the star machine, hollywood excelled at manufacturing dennis morgans. Silent stars has 2 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. Equally engaging as browsing material or a covertocover read, silent stars gives voice to both the sung and unsung pioneers of film. In this epochal study on how the hollywood studio system manufactures stars sometimes out of little but a cute smile, and other times molding and channeling that indefinable stardust quality, basinger film studieswesleyan univ silent stars, 1999, etc.

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