Acting for the Silent Screen

Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, History
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Author: Chris O'Rourke ISBN: 9781786720597
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: November 30, 2016
Imprint: I.B. Tauris Language: English
Author: Chris O'Rourke
ISBN: 9781786720597
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: November 30, 2016
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Language: English

A young man leaves his home to look for work in the cinema industry and disappears into the anonymity of showbiz rebuffals. A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic star. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to act in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might have considered a 'low' art form. Stories like these were the stuff of newspaper headlines in 1920s Britain and reflected a national 'craze' for the cinema. They also demonstrated radical changes in attitudes and values within British society in the wake of World War I.

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A young man leaves his home to look for work in the cinema industry and disappears into the anonymity of showbiz rebuffals. A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic star. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to act in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might have considered a 'low' art form. Stories like these were the stuff of newspaper headlines in 1920s Britain and reflected a national 'craze' for the cinema. They also demonstrated radical changes in attitudes and values within British society in the wake of World War I.

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