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Douglas Fairbanks and the American century

Title: Douglas Fairbanks and the American century / John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.
Author: Tibbetts, John C.
Publication: Jackson [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
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xxii, 443 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks's last silent film, The Iron Mask. Fairbanks was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his sairic comedy-adventures shadow-boxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American Easterner's experience and pretension and the Westerner's promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World self-made man--tied to tradition yet emancipated from history--he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility. This is the most compete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh's text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star's career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I ODYSSEY OF A SPRING LAMB -- ch. 1 "Windows Are the Only Doors": The First Films (The Lamb, 1915, and. Double Trouble, 1915) -- ch. 2 "The Leap to Greatness": The Years at Triangle, Artcraft, United Artists, 1916--1919 -- ch. 3 "Arizona Jim": The Fairbanks Westerns, 1916--1920 -- ch. 4 "Her Picture in the Papers": Mary Pickford's "Growing Girl" -- ch. 5 "On an Odd Note": Say, Young Fellow! (1918), The Nut (1920), and When the Clouds Roll By (1919) -- pt. II "THE IMPERIAL REACH" -- ch. 6 Prologue -- ch. 7 "The Mark of Greatness": The Adventures of Senor Zorro -- ch. 8 "A Dance of Free Men in the Forest": Robin Hood -- ch. 9 "Architecture in Motion": The Thief of Bagdad -- ch. 10 "A Painted Ship on a Painted Ocean": The Black Pirate -- ch. 11 "Dumas, Douglas, and Delirium": Fairbanks and the Musketeers -- ch. 12 "The Fall from Grace": The Gaucho -- pt. III DOUG AND MARY FIND THEIR VOICES -- ch. 13 Coquette: Goodbye to the Glad Girl --
Contents note continued: ch. 14 A Shrewd Adaptation: The Taming of the Shrew -- pt. IV ARTISTS AND HUSBANDS -- ch. 15 Prologue -- ch. 16 Reaching for the Moon -- ch. 17 Around the World in Eighty Minutes -- ch. 18 Mr. Robinson Crusoe -- ch. 19 The Private Life of Don Juan.

Call Number

MWES (Fairbanks, D.) 14-6905

ISBN

9781628460063 (hardback)
1628460067 (hardback)
9781628460070 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013042775

OCLC

861554463

Author

Tibbetts, John C., author.

Title

Douglas Fairbanks and the American century / John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.

Publisher

Jackson [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]

Type of Content

text

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Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Welsh, James M., 1938-2013, author.

Brownlow, Kevin, writer of foreword.

Other Form:

Online version: Tibbetts, John C. Douglas Fairbanks and the American century Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628460070 (DLC) 2013051079

Research Call Number

MWES (Fairbanks, D.) 14-6905

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