@article{1484055,
      author = {Randell, Karen, and Weedon, Alexis,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484055},
      title = {Transforming faces for the screen : horror and romance in  the 1920s /},
      abstract = {Transforming Faces for the Screen: Horror and Romance in  the 1920s is an impressive scholarly achievement, standing  as both a fascinating study of the relationship between  film and war trauma during a specific era and as a model  for approaching film and culture more generally through  meticulous archival research and bold interdisciplinary  thinking. Gaylyn Studlar, David May Distinguished Professor  in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis,USA.  This book brings together research from medical and film  archives to illustrate the cultural impact of film and  literature in its relationship to the discourse of plastic  surgery in the 1920s. This different take on reading the  body after the First World War enables students of multiple  disciplines, and readers interested in both Hollywood and  post-war culture, to understand some of the complexities of  medical interventions gained after the First World War and  the way in which they filtered into the world of Hollywood  film making. It also allows readers who may not be familiar  with these two 1920s stars to access the films of Lon  Chaney and the books and films of Elinor Glyn and gain new  insights into 1920s visual culture. For ease of readership,  the book is organised so that each of the main chapters  focuses on a particular film (either Lon Chaney or Elinor  Glyn). This is particularly useful for use in the classroom  or for online education. Readers can refer to the film  directly, aided by illustrations of frames from the films.  This book tells the story of how two stars of Hollywood  film transformed their characters faces on screen through a  close reading of three films in the 1920s. It reveals how  they applied their embodied knowledge of surgery and  surgical procedures to broaden their audiences emotional  and intellectual understanding of the treatment of  deformity and disability. Alexis Weedon is Professor of  Publishing Studies and Karen Randell is Professor of Film  and Culture, both at the University of Bedfordshire, UK.  Their British Academy funded project explores attitudes to  the reconstructed body through the creative work of these  two Hollywood stars of the 1920s. Their research  investigates medical procedures, photos and diaries located  at archives in the UK and USA to analyse films which  creatively and successfully addressed the latent fears of  technologizing the body. .},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40029-2},
      recid = {1484055},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 139 pages) :},
}