Hollywood and the rise of physical culture
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Hollywood and the rise of physical culture
（American popular history and culture : a Routledge series / edited by Jerome Nadelhaft）
Routledge, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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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