Acting for the Silent Screen
Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, History
| Author: | Chris O'Rourke | ISBN: | 9781786720597 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing | Publication: | November 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | I.B. Tauris | Language: | English |
| Author: | Chris O'Rourke |
| ISBN: | 9781786720597 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication: | November 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | I.B. Tauris |
| Language: | English |
A young man leaves his home to look for work in the cinema industry and disappears into the anonymity of showbiz rebuffals. A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic star. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to act in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might have considered a 'low' art form. Stories like these were the stuff of newspaper headlines in 1920s Britain and reflected a national 'craze' for the cinema. They also demonstrated radical changes in attitudes and values within British society in the wake of World War I.
A young man leaves his home to look for work in the cinema industry and disappears into the anonymity of showbiz rebuffals. A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic star. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to act in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might have considered a 'low' art form. Stories like these were the stuff of newspaper headlines in 1920s Britain and reflected a national 'craze' for the cinema. They also demonstrated radical changes in attitudes and values within British society in the wake of World War I.
