{"product_id":"silent-stars-9780819564511","title":"Silent Stars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilm scholar Jeanine Basinger offers a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misrepresented, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluded are Valentino, \"the Sheik,\" who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded; Mary Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies, unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original \"Phantom\" and \"Hunchback,\" Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Basinger also includes the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks; and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJEANINE BASINGER is Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and Curator of Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University. Her many books on film include A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930 - 1960 (1995), American Cinema (1994), The \"It's a Wonderful Life\" Book (1990), and The World War II Combat Film (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492152873234,"sku":"9780819564511","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c42e053f-22ce-43d6-baa4-9032bdfe87f2.jpg?v=1730573614","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/silent-stars-9780819564511","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}