This book brings together research from medical and film archives to illustrate the cultural impact of film and literature in its relationship to the discourse of plastic surgery in the 1920s. This different take on reading the body after the First World War enables students of multiple disciplines, and readers interested in both Hollywood and post-war culture, to understand some of the complexities of medical interventions gained after the First World War and the way in which t...
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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Vilray Blair MD, Lon Chaney and The Phantom of the Opera.- Chapter 3: Beauty Regimes, Facial Surgery and Elinor Glyn’s Such Me...
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Alexis Weedon is Professor of Publishing Studies and Karen Randell is Professor of Film and Culture, both at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Their Brit...