Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture
This book examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building. It presents a case study of Hollywood's impact on the American reducing craze of the 1920s as the basis for speculating interrelationship of Hollywood and physical culture.
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Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture
This book examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building. It presents a case study of Hollywood's impact on the American reducing craze of the 1920s as the basis for speculating interrelationship of Hollywood and physical culture.
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Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture

Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture

by Heather Addison
Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture

Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture

by Heather Addison

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This book examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building. It presents a case study of Hollywood's impact on the American reducing craze of the 1920s as the basis for speculating interrelationship of Hollywood and physical culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415946766
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/24/2003
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

1. Hollywood and Physical Culture 2. The Drama-Canning Industry Heads West: Hollywood Emerges 3. Capitizing Their Charms: Cinema Stars and Reducing 4. Ascending the Celluloid Heavens: Reducing as Personal Transformation 5. Hollywood and Physical Culture: The 1920s and Beyond
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