[Commlist] call for chapters: Fallen Stars

Paul Fryer is in discussion with a UK academic publisher about the 
creation of a new edited collection of essays under the working title, 
Fallen Stars.

The book will explore the lives and careers of "forgotten" figures from 
the early years of the motion picture industry (by early I mainly mean 
pre-sound). Performers who may have had an impact over a shorter period 
of time, but whose careers collapsed and disappeared, and who are now 
perhaps completely over-looked, or merely remembered as brief footnotes 
in film history.

I propose concentrating on lesser-known performers, rather than those 
who may have had more spectacular falls from grace, through scandals or 
misdemeanors (many of those stories have already frequently been told).
The book will certainly cover aspects of film history, and the nature of 
stardom as a central feature of that history; but it will also examine 
the role of "celebrity" and "celebrity culture" in terms of it's meaning 
in the entertainment industry of 100 years or more ago (and, 
retrospectively how that is viewed today). Stardom and celebrity can 
outlast a lifetime, but it can equally be brief and painfully transient.

I now welcome proposals for inclusion in this collection:
1. proposals should focus upon a single, specific performer of any 
nationality, whose career should have begun, or have mainly taken place 
during the pre-sound era.
2. proposals should consist of a short abstract (300 - 500 words), and a 
brief biography.

3. final essays should be of approximately 10,000 to 12,000 words, and 
may include a limited number of illustrations.

4. if selected, the text of the essay should not have been previously 
published in any format.

5. proposals should be emailed to Paul Fryer: (paul /at/ paulfryer.me.uk) to 
arrive by 31st March.


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