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Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, Loie Fuller attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. This book demonstrates that Fuller was an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism.

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Celebrity personalities owe their fame to their ability create an icon of the self. Rising Star is a look at the roots of this form of celebrity. Rhonda Garelick locates a prototype of the star personality in the dandies and aesthete literary figures of the nineteenth century, and explores their relationship with women and performance.