“…Greta Garbo murder case…”

Subjects: “…performing arts, film, video, media, media studies, communications, american studies, american culture, american cinema, 1920s, 20s, roaring twenties, film studies, motion picture, film industry, entertainment, hollywood, old hollywood, film studio, cinematographer, editor, screenwriter, set designer, celebrity, charlie chaplin, mary pickford, joan crawford, greta garbo, rudolph valentino, race film, blockbuster, classic hollywood, classic film, melodrama, western, historical epic, romantic comedy, slapstick, science fiction, fantasy.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Perception : Chanel no. 5, Wallace Stevens, the sublime -- Violence : Scott Fitzgerald, fascination, Katherine Mansfield -- Photography : Virginia Woolf, grammar, desire -- Celebrity : 1910, the extinction of personality, Greta Garbo -- Primitivism : Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, Josephine Baker -- Cellophane : Florine Stettheimer, Gertrude Stein, blankness.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Douglas Fairbanks : king of Hollywood -- Buster Keaton : comic invention and the art of moving pictures -- The Talmadge sisters : a forgotten filmmaking dynasty -- Rudolph Valentino : Italian American -- An appetite for living : Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow -- Greta Garbo : fashioning a star image -- Anna May Wong : toward Janus-faced, border-crossing, "minor" stardom -- Emil Jannings : translating the star -- Al Jolson : the man who changed the movies forever -- African American stardom inside and outside of Hollywood : Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry -- Marie Dressler : thief of the talkies -- In the wings.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo: The Sexy Hausfrau versus the Swedish Sphinx; 6. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Lewis -- George Jean Nathan -- James Thurber -- Cyril Connolly -- Peter Brook -- Greta Garbo -- Judy Holliday -- Thornton Wilder -- Paul Léautaud -- Edith Evans -- Tennessee Williams -- Bernard Shaw -- Gordon Craig -- Beatrice Lillie -- Arthur Miller -- Antonio Ordóñez -- Bertolt Brecht -- George Cukor -- Miles Davis -- Martha Graham -- Joan Littlewood -- Duke Ellington -- Lenny Bruce -- Humphrey Bogart -- Laurence Olivier…”

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Table of Contents: “…Bean -- National Soul/Cosmopolitan Skin: Swedish Cinema at a Crossroads / Jan Olsson -- Queer Crossings: Greta Garbo, National Identity, and Gender Deviance / Laura Horak -- Cosmopolitan Women: Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl / Patrice Petro.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Louis / Photographer unknown -- Greta Garbo / Clarence Sinclair Bull…”

Table of Contents: “…Griffith, and me / Lillian Gish -- Dialogue with the actress / Louise Brooks -- The new stage fright : talking pictures / Louise Closer Hale -- Acting in talking pictures / Betty Compson -- What the public wants / Greta Garbo -- My ten years in the studios / George Arliss -- Lorenzo goes to Hollywood / Edward Arnold -- The actor / Lionel Barrymore -- Film acting / Robert Donat -- The film actor / Eric Portman -- Mask or face / Michael Redgrave -- Talking about acting / Albert Finney & Mary Ure -- On acting / Laurence Olivier -- Notes of a Soviet actor / Nikolai K. …”

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