Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars

by Faye Hammill

Book Overview

As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon--celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private lives came to fascinate readers as much as their work. Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars profiles seven American, Canadian,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292726066
• ISBN13: 9780292726062
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"