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摘要
这篇文章考察了“the Pictures Girl”明星搜索比赛,该比赛由电影爱好者杂志《Pictures and Picturegoer》从1918年底到1919年初举办。它描绘了比赛的各个阶段,展示了获胜者爱丽丝·拉文德·李(Alice ' Lavender ' Lee)的承诺奖金与实际结果之间的差距,并展示了支撑才艺比赛的动机,并继续支撑着它们。书中还剖析了爱丽丝·李晚年生活中出现的一系列神话,并展示了这些神话是如何以及为什么出现的。
Alice ‘Lavender’ Lee, ‘The Pictures Girl’: A ‘Star Search’ Competition of the Late 1910s
This article examines the ‘The Pictures Girl’ star search competition, run by the film fan magazine Pictures and Picturegoer from late 1918 to early 1919. It charts the stages of the competition, demonstrates the gap between the promised prize and the actual outcome for the winner, one Alice ‘Lavender’ Lee, and shows what motives underpinned talent competitions and continue to underpin them now. It also cuts through a body of myth that emerged around Alice Lee in her later life, and shows how and why this body of myth emerged.
期刊介绍:
The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the history of the audio-visual mass media from c.1900 to the present. It explores the institutional and ideological contexts of film, radio and television, analyses the evidence produced by the mass media for historians and social scientists, and considers the impact of mass communications on political, social and cultural history. The needs of those engaged in research and teaching are served by scholarly articles, book reviews and by archival reports concerned with the preservation and availability of records. In addition the journal aims to provide a survey of developments in the teaching of history and social science courses which involve the use of film and broadcast materials. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is the official journal of the International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST). All articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editorial screening and the opinion of at least two anonymous referees.