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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dyer, Richard, 1945-
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: McDonald, Paul, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : BFI Pub., 1998.
Edition:New ed.
Subjects:
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Filmkunst.
Filmacteurs.
Beeldvorming.
Reputatie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Stars as a Social Phenomenon
  • Conditions for Stardom
  • Production: Consumption
  • Origins of stardom
  • Stars as a phenomenon of production
  • Stars as a phenomenon of consumption
  • 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
  • Stars as Stars
  • Consumption
  • Success
  • Ordinariness
  • are stars 'different'?
  • The dream soured
  • Love
  • Stars as Types
  • The notion of social type
  • Alternative or subversive type
  • Stars as specific images
  • A specific image: Jane Fonda
  • Part Three: Stars as Signs
  • Stars and 'Character'
  • The notion of character
  • The construction of character
  • Stars as characters in films
  • Stars and Performance
  • Trends in the study of performance
  • Performance signs
  • A Note on Authorship
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Supplementary Chapter: Reconceptualising Stardom
  • Supplemental bibliography.