Stars
1st Edition
Published on 25. July 2019
256 pages
978-1-83871-838-1 (ISBN)
Description
Through the intensive examination of films, magazines, advertising and critical texts, Dyer analyses the historical, ideological and aesthetic significance of stars, changing the way we understand screen icons. Paying particular attention to icons including Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-83871-838-1 (9781838718381)
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03/1998
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BFI Publishing
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Persons
Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King's College, London, and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has been honoured by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and Turku and Yale Universities, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Stars (1979), White (1997), The Culture of Queers (2002), Nino Rota (BFI, 2010) and In the Space of a Song (2012), and he is the author of BFI Film Classics on 'Se7en' (1999), Brief Encounter (2002, 2015) and La Dolce Vita (2017).
Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Stars As A Social Phenomenon
- 1. Conditions for Stardom
- 2. Production: Consumption
- Origins of stardom
- Stars as a phenomenon of production
- Stars as a phenomenon of consumption
- 3. Ideology
- Star versus character
- Life-as-theatre
- A historical paradigm -from gods to mortals
- Stars and the status quo
- Compensation
- Charisma
- Part Two: Stars As Images
- 4. Stars as Stars
- Consumption
- Success
- Ordinariness - are stars 'different'?
- The dream soured
- Love
- 5. Stars as Types
- The notion of social type
- Alternative or subversive types
- 6. Stars as Specific Images
- A specific image: Jane Fonda
- Part Three: Stars As Signs
- 7. Stars and 'Character'
- The notion of character
- The construction of character
- Stars as characters in films
- 8. Stars and Performance
- Trends in the study of performance
- Performance signs
- 9. A Note on Authorship
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Supplementary Chapter: Reconceptualising Stardom
- Supplementary Bibliography
- Index
