Stardom Industry of Desire

Name: Stardom Industry of Desire
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ISBN: 9780415052184

ISBN-10: 0415052181

ISBN-13: 9780415052184

Edition: 1991

Authors: Christine Gledhill

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Newspapers, magazines, TV talk shows, album covers -- all display a proliferation of film star images. In the past we have tended to see celebrities as cogs in a mass entertainment industry selling desires and ideologies. But since the 1970s, new approaches have explored the active role of the star in producing meanings, pleasures and identities for a diversity of audiences.Stardombrings together some of the best recent writing which represents these new approaches. Drawn from film history, sociology, textual analysis, audience research, psychoanalysis and cultural politics, the essays raise important questions for the politics of representation, the impact of the star on society and the…

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List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/22/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.37" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Christine Gledhill is a professor of media studies at the University of Sunderland. She is the author or editor of numerous books, includingNationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and British Cinema in the Second World War.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



The System



Seeing Stars



The Emergence of the Star System in America



The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window



The Building of Popular Images



Fatal Beauties



Stars and Society



Charisma



Shirley Temple and the House of Rockefeller



'Puffed Sleeves Before Tea-Time'



The Return of Jimmy Stewart



Three Indian Film Stars



A Star is Born and the Construction of Authenticity



Feminine Fascinations



Performers and Signs



Articulating Stardom



Screen Acting and the Commutation Test



Stars and Genre



Signs of Melodrama



Desire, Meaning and Politics



In Defence of Violence



The Politics of 'Jane Fonda'



The Glut of the Personality



Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification



'A Queer Feeling When I Look at You'



Monster Metaphors


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Index