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Douglas Fairbanks / Jeffrey Vance ; with Tony Maietta ; Robert Cushman, photographic editor.
- Title
- Douglas Fairbanks / Jeffrey Vance ; with Tony Maietta ; Robert Cushman, photographic editor.
- Author
- Vance, Jeffrey, 1970-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press : Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, c2008.
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- Description
- 368 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- This deft mix of biography, film history, and analysis is a superb portrait of a true pioneer who was critically important to the creation of cinema as the defining art form of the 20th century.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-353) and index.
- Includes filmography: p. 323-335.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A bad case of St. Vitus' dance -- The machine for escape -- Doug : hero and popular philosopher -- Pickfair -- United artists -- Making his mark : The mark of Zorro (1920) -- The great leap : The three musketeers (1921) -- Scaling the heights : Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922) -- Apogee : The thief of Bagdad (1924) -- The son also rises : Don Q son of Zorro (1925) and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. -- Derring-do : The black pirate (1926) -- Darkness falls : Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho (1927) -- Hail and farewell : The iron mask (1929) -- Sound and fury : Taming of the shrew (1929) and marital strife -- Sliding downhill.
- ISBN
- 9780520256675 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520256670 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008006895
- OCLC
- 192109795
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library