Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America

by Mark Lynn Anderson

Book Overview

Twilight of the Idols revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars-Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel Normand among them-Mark Lynn Anderson shows how the era's celebrity culture shaped public ideas about personality and human conduct and played a pivotal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520267087
• ISBN13: 9780520267084
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"