ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ILLUSTRATIONS IX
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The Lasky Company and Highbrow Culture: Authorship versus Intertextuality 7
7. 2. SelLTheatricalization in Victorian Pictorial Dramaturgy: What's His Name 34
8. 3. The Lower East Side as Spectacle: Class and Ethnicity in the Urban Landscape 59
9. 4. The Screen as Display Window: Constructing the "New Woman" / 87 The "New Woman" as a Consumer 87
10. 5. The Historical Epic and Progressive Era Civic Pageantry: Joan the. Woman 117
11. 6. Set. and Costume Design as Spectacle in a Consume r Culture: The Early Jazz Age Films 142
12. 7. DeMille's Exodus from Famous Players-Lasky: The Ten Commandments (1923) 179
13. FILMOGRAPHY 205
14. NOTES 209
15. INDEX 253