Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415946766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 200 str.

Heather Addison;Heather Addison

Opis

This study examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture including activities such as dieting and muscle-building. Hollywood's long-standing prominence on the world state makes it an ideal place to begin such an examination. The evidence that emerges from a case study of Hollywood's impact on the American reducing craze of the 1920s, a physical culture fad whose chief focus was on shedding fat, forms the basis for speculation regarding the interrelationship of Hollywood and physical culture.

Spis treści

1. Hollywood and Physical Culture 2. The Drama-Canning Industry Heads West: Hollywood Emerges 3. Capitizing Their Charms: Cinema Stars and Reducing 4. Ascending the Celluloid Heavens: Reducing as Personal Transformation 5. Hollywood and Physical Culture: The 1920s and Beyond

O autorze

Heather Addison