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Hollywood unknowns : a history of extras, bit players, and stand-ins
- Title
- Hollywood unknowns : a history of extras, bit players, and stand-ins / Anthony Slide.
- Author
- Slide, Anthony.
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN1995.9.E97 S55 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 268 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present. Hollywood Unknowns discusses the relationship of the extra to the star, the lowly position in which extras were held, the poor working conditions and wages, and the sexual exploitation of many of the hardworking women striving for a place in Hollywood society.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The extra in the early silent years -- The 1920s -- The Hollywood studio club -- Central casting -- The port of missing girls -- The coming of sound -- The stand-in -- Celebrity extras -- The silent star as extra -- Ethnic extras -- The 1940s, unionization, and beyond -- "Extras, extras, read all about 'em".
- ISBN
- 9781617034749
- 1617034746
- 9781617034756
- 1617034754
- LCCN
- 2012005306
- OCLC
- ocn777002224
- 777002224
- SCSB-14742787
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library