Go West, Young Women - The Rise of Early Hollywood

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-27408-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a “New Woman.” Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford’s rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post–World War I years that culminated in Hollywood’s first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hallett, Hilary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Part I. Along the Road to Hollywood

Prologue I. Landscapes

1. “Oh for a girl who could ride a horse like Pearl White”: The Actress Democratizes Fame

2. Women-Made Women:

Writing the “Movies” before Hollywood

Part II. Melodramas of Hollywood’s Birth

Prologue II. The Postwar Revolution in Morals and Manners, Redux

3. Hollywood Bohemia

4. The Movie Menace

5. A Star Is Born: Rereading Hollywood’s First Sex Scandal

Conclusion: The Girl from Hollywood

Filmography

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hilary Hallett is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.