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Go West, Young Women!
Hilary Hallett
其他書名
The Rise of Early Hollywood
出版Univ of California Press, 2013-01-15
主題History / United States / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / GeneralSocial Science / Gender Studies
ISBN05202740919780520274099
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9pSHDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.