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Rising Star

Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle

By: Rhonda K. Garelick

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Rising Star

Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle

By: Rhonda K. Garelick

Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self. Rising Star is a fascinating look at the roots of this particular form of celebrity. Here Rhonda Garelick locates a prototype of the star personality in the dandies and aesthete literary figures of the nineteenth century, including Beau Brummell, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Oscar Wilde, and explores their peculiarly charged relationship with women and performance. When fin-de-siècle aesthetes turned their attention to the new, "feminized" spectacle of mass culture, Garelick argues, they found a disturbing female counterpart to their own highly staged personae. She examines the concept of the broadcasted self-image in literary works as well as in such unwritten cultural texts as the choreography and films of dancer Loie Fuller, the industrialized spectacles of European World Fairs, and the cultural performances taking place today in fields ranging from entertainment to the academy. Recent dandy-like figures such as the artist formerly known as Prince, Madonna, Jacques Derrida, and Jackie O. all share a legacy provided by the encounter between "high" and early mass culture. Garelick's analysis of this encounter covers a wide range of topics, from the gender complexity of the European male dandy and the mechanization of the female body to Orientalist performance, the origins of cinema, and the emergence of "crowd" theory and mass politics.

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241

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Princeton University Press

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0691223920

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9780691223926

The First Salmon Run

The Bear Cubs' Adventure

By: Rhonda Girard

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The First Salmon Run

The Bear Cubs' Adventure

By: Rhonda Girard

Father Bear—Pâpâ Maskwa—is taking his two bear cubs to the river for their first salmon run. Along the journey, they meet their friends squirrel, (añikwacâs), seal, (âhkik), and salmon, (sôsâsiw). With each friend, the cubs learn lessons in friendship, determination and courage. This totem story is intricately woven with the Swampy Cree language. The First Salmon Run: The Bear Cubs’ Adventure introduces children to Indigenous culture, sharing the virtues of Mother Earth and oral tradition.

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FriesenPress

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1039112080

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9781039112087

Electric Salome

Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism

By: Rhonda K. Garelick

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Electric Salome

Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism

By: Rhonda K. Garelick

Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.

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288

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Princeton University Press

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1400832772

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9781400832774

Encyclopedia of Sociology

By: Edgar F. Borgatta,Rhonda J. V. Montgomery

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Encyclopedia of Sociology

By: Edgar F. Borgatta,Rhonda J. V. Montgomery

Online version of the 5 v. encyclopedia published in 2000.

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776

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MacMillan Reference Library

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0028648536

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9780028648538

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