Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood

Name: Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood
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ISBN: 9780520274099

ISBN-10: 0520274091

ISBN-13: 9780520274099

Edition: 2013

Authors: Hilary Hallett

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In 1920, Los Angeles became the only western city where women outnumbered men. InGo West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores the relatively unknown New Woman of the West and her role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. Hallett explains how women on both sides of the screen pioneered the transformation of the fledgling film industry from a marginal, decentralized business controlled by wealthy Anglo-Americans into the dominant, cosmopolitan industry of early Hollywood centered in Los Angeles. As early publicity stories about female celebrities focused on their independence, resourcefulness, and traversal of Los Angeles's increasingly bohemian terrain,…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



List of Illustrations



Along the Road to Hollywood



Landscapes



"Oh for a girl who could ride a horse like Pearl White": The Actress Democratizes Fame



Women-Made Women: Writing the "Movies" before Hollywood



Melodramas of Hollywood's Birth



The Postwar Revolution in Morals and Manners, Redux



Hollywood Bohemia



The Movie Menace



A Star Is Born: Rereading the "Fatty" Arbuckle Scandal


Conclusion: The Girl from Hollywood


Filmography


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index