| Description |
xx, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
(Cont.) Stars and genre / Andrew Britton -- Signs of melodrama / Christine Gledhill -- Desire, meaning and politics. In defence of violence / Michel Mourlet -- The politics of 'Jane Fonda' / Tessa Perkins -- The glut of the personality / David Lusted -- Pleasure, ambivalence, identification : Valentino and female spectatorship / Miriam Hansen -- 'A queer feeling when I look at you' : Hollywood stars and lesbian spectatorship in the 1930s / Andrea Weiss -- Monster metaphors : notes on Michael Jackson's Thriller / Kobena Mercer |
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The system. Seeing stars / Janet Staiger -- The emergence of the star system in America / Richard deCordova -- The Carole Lombard in Macy's window / Charles Eckert -- The building of popular images : Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe / Thomas Harris -- Fatal beauties : black women in Hollywood / Karen Alexander -- Stars and society. Charisma / Richard Dyer -- Shirley Temple and the house of Rockefeller / Charles Eckert -- 'Puffed sleeves before tea-time' : Joan Crawford, Adrian and women audiences / Charlotte Cornelia Herzog and Jane Marie Gaines -- The return of Jimmy Stewart : the publicity photograph as text / Charles Wolfe -- Three Indian film stars / Behroze Gandhy and Rosie Thomas -- A Star Is Born and the construction of authenticity / Richard Dyer -- Feminine fascinations : forms of identification in star-audience relations / Jackie Stacey -- Performers and signs. Articulating stardom / Barry King -- Screen acting and the commutation test / John O. Thompson |
| Analysis |
Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Acting |
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United States |
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Cinema films Acting Stars, history |
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Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Acting |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index |
| Subject |
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States.
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Motion picture actors and actresses.
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Motion picture industry -- History.
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Motion picture industry -- Public relations.
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Motion picture industry -- United States -- History.
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Motion picture studios -- United States.
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Motion picture studios.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Gledhill, Christine, editor
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| LC no. |
90033813 |
| ISBN |
0415052173 (cloth) |
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0415052181 (paperback) |
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