Stardom: Industry of Desire

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ISBN: 9780203400425 | 0203400429
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Copyright: 6/19/2004

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Stardom brings together for the first time major writing of the last decade which seeks to understand the phenomenon of stars and stardom. It draws on a range of approaches from cultural studies and textual analysis to audience research.

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Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiii
The System	p. 1
Seeing Stars	p. 3
The Emergence of the Star System in America	p. 17
The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window	p. 30
The Building of Popular Images	p. 40
Fatal Beauties	p. 45
Stars and Society	p. 55
Charisma	p. 57
Shirley Temple and the House of Rockefeller	p. 60
'Puffed Sleeves Before Tea-Time'	p. 74
The Return of Jimmy Stewart	p. 92
Three Indian Film Stars	p. 107
A Star is Born and the Construction of Authenticity	p. 132
Feminine Fascinations	p. 141
Performers and Signs	p. 165
Articulating Stardom	p. 167
Screen Acting and the Commutation Test	p. 183
Stars and Genre	p. 198
Signs of Melodrama	p. 207
Desire, Meaning and Politics	p. 231
In Defence of Violence	p. 233
The Politics of 'Jane Fonda'	p. 237
The Glut of the Personality	p. 251
Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification	p. 259
'A Queer Feeling When I Look at You'	p. 283
Monster Metaphors	p. 300
Select Bibliography	p. 317
Index	p. 332
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