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(2018) Cecil B. Demille, classical Hollywood, and modern American mass culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
This chapter briefly looks to the ways that DeMille's significance has been marginalized by a lack of contextual awareness in his critics and summarizes the main arguments of this text. The chapter's title is taken from a play written by a young, pre-Hollywood DeMille, where a dead man's ghost returns to correct the wrongs he committed throughout his life. Following his own death, in January, 1959, DeMille's "ghost" first appeared through numerous insider "tell-all's' that mocked him as a hypocritical martinet with odd sexual fetishes. But the director's public appeal remained strong—particularly through the annual television broadcast of The Ten Commandments—and raises the question of why this is so.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76986-8_8
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Blanke, D. (2018). Re-locating demille, in Cecil B. Demille, classical Hollywood, and modern American mass culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 305-314.
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