| 书目名称 | Transforming Faces for the Screen |
| 副标题 | Horror and Romance i |
| 编辑 | Karen Randell,Alexis Weedon |
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| 概述 | Shows how 1920s culture addressed facial disfigurement in the genres of horror and romance.Shows the legacy of medical advances in World War 1 in the Hollywood films of Lon Chaney and Elinor Glyn.Draw |
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| 描述 | .This book brings together research from medical and film archives to illustrate the cultural impact of film and literature in its relationship to the discourse of plastic surgery in the 1920s. This different take on reading the body after the First World War enables students of multiple disciplines, and readers interested in both Hollywood and post-war culture, to understand some of the complexities of medical interventions gained after the First World War and the way in which they filtered into the world of Hollywood film making. It also allows readers who may not be familiar with these two 1920s stars to access the films of Lon Chaney and the books and films of Elinor Glyn and gain new insights into 1920s visual culture. For ease of readership, the book is organised so that each of the main chapters focuses on a particular film (either Lon Chaney or Elinor Glyn). This is particularly useful for use in the classroom or for online education. Readers can refer to the film directly, aided by illustrations of frames from the films. This book tells the story of how two stars of Hollywood film transformed their character’s faces on screen through a close reading of three films in the 1 |
| 出版日期 | Book 2023 |
| 关键词 | facial disfigurement; veteran; First World War; silent film; visual cultur; Elinor Glyn; Lon Chaney Snr; mi |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40029-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-40029-2 |
| copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 |
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