In direct address to Photoplay’s female readership, these fictionalised narratives catered to the familiar wish-fulfillment fantasies that take on a formulaic fairy-tale structure: underprivileged girls are plucked from obscurity, rescued from extreme penury, and refashioned into marquee idols. In our new issue, film critic Chuck Williamson writes about the star narratives of silent-era fan magazines. themissingslate/2014/06/14/deconstructing-the-dream-factory/
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