Cinemas Melodramatic Celebrity

Author : Mandy Merck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911239775
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity written by Mandy Merck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth to social esteem. Tracing the history of this conundrum back to the philosophy of the seventeenth century and the theatre of the eighteenth, she demonstrates its convergence in stage melodrama and its intensification in the Hollywood star system. Are today's celebrities worth our attention? In that demand for judgement and the hope for its visual guidance, the melodramatic imagination survives – permeating not only fiction film, but documentary, the artist's film, and our self-exhibition on social media. Examining a range of classical and contemporary films from Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) to Laura Poitras's Citizenfour (2014) , the many remakes of A Star Is Born, the compulsory exhibitionism of political celebrity and the unmasking of whistle-blowers, Merck illustrates the ways in which the cinema constantly restages the moral evaluation of prominent individuals, whether they are actors, artists, politicians or activists.

Author : Mandy Merck
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ISBN 13 : 9781911239819
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Author : Christine Gledhill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134940904
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stardom written by Christine Gledhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past stars have been studied as cogs in a mass entertainment industry selling desires and ideologies. But since the 1970s, new approaches have reopened debate, as film and cultural studies try to account for the active role of the star in producing meanings, pleasures, and identites for a diversity of audiences. Stardom brings together for the first time some of the major writing of the last decade which seeks to understand the phemomenon of stars and stardom. Gathered under four headings - The System, Stars and Society, Performers and Signs, Desire and Politics - these essays represent a range of approaches drawn from film history, sociolgy, textual analysis, audience research, psychoanalysis, and cultural politics. They raise important issues about the politics of representation and the cultural limitations and possibilities of stars.

Author : Vanni Codeluppi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527566846
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stardom in Cinema, Television and the Web written by Vanni Codeluppi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 50 years, the social importance of stars has steadily grown, to the point that stars have now become key role models who strongly influence people’s behaviours. This book considers the connections between the three main media (cinema, television and the web) and each of the three phases into which the history of stardom can be divided. The first phase can largely be credited with the creation and codification of contemporary stardom, while the second is linked to the spread of television, which weakened the Hollywood stardom model and gradually transformed the figure of the star, making it more intimate and familiar. In the last of these phases, we have many ‘outsiders’ (personalities from a variety of professional domains and experiences) who are able to achieve considerable social visibility thanks to their skilful use of the web.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robyn Karney
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517437360
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Movie Stars Story written by Robyn Karney and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1984 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical profiles of five hundred of Hollywood's stars, from the 1920s to the 1980s, include career retrospectives and assessment of major film performances -- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110709593X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama written by Carolyn Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

Author : Christopher Ames
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187389
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movies About the Movies written by Christopher Ames and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies can be found throughout the history of American cinema, from the days of silents to the present. They include films from genres as far ranging as musical, film noir, melodrama, comedy, and action-adventure. Such movies seduce us with the promise of revealing the reality behind the camera. But, as part of the very industry they supposedly critique, they cannot take us behind the scenes in any true sense. Through close analysis of fifteen critically acclaimed films, Christopher Ames reveals how the idea of Hollywood is constructed and constructs itself. Films discussed: What Price Hollywood? (1952), A Star Is Born (1937), Stand-In (1937), Boy Meets Girl (1938), Sullivan's Travels (1941), In a Lonely Place (1950), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Star (1950), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Pennies from Heaven (1981), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), The Player (1992), Last Action Hero (1993).