Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film
- Author
- Kristen Anderson Wagner
- Content
- x + 303 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Detroit: Wayne State University Press
- Description
- Covers the early 1910s to the late 1920s and includes discussion of white performers including Clara Bow, Marion Davies, Dorothy Devore, Marie Dressler, Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Gish, Gale Henry, Alice Howell, Colleen Moore, Polly Moran, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford, Constance Talmadge, Eva Tanguay, and Fay Tincher.
- Main subject
- Film and Television
- ISBN
- 9780814345290 (cloth); 9780814341025 (pap.); 9780814341032 (ebook)
- Citation
- Wagner, Kristen Anderson. Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed May 16, 2024. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1394.
- Updated
- 10-19-2022