360 Pages
by
Routledge
364 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part I: The system, Part II: Stars and society, Part III: Performers and signs, Part IV: Desire, meaning and politics, Select bibliography, Index
Biography
Christine Gledhill
