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This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age

by Gaylyn Studlar

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Silent-film stardom through the lens of masculinity

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Silent-film stardom through the lens of masculinity

Gaylyn Studlar examines Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, John Barrymore, and Lon Chaney as cultural figures shaped by the silent-era Hollywood system. Centering on the Jazz Age, the book places their screen personas and public stardom alongside contemporary debates about shifting sexual and social norms. The four-star structure offers a focused way into larger questions of gender, celebrity, performance, and cultural change, treating popular film history as a record of the period’s ideological tensions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Film and silent-cinema students
  • Readers interested in star studies and celebrity culture
  • Those exploring masculinity and gender in Jazz Age America

Themes

Silent-era HollywoodMasculinityCelebrity and stardomGender normsJazz Age culture

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Book overview

Studlar looks at four major Hollywood male stars of the silent era--Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, John Barrymore, and Lon Chaney--to illuminate the cultural, ideological, and historical implications of these stars in relation to contemporary debates over changing sexual and social norms.
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