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Decordova, Richard

 
9780252070167: Picture Personalities: The Emergence of the Star System in America
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ISBN 10 : 025207016X ISBN 13 : 9780252070167
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2001

Synopsis

Moving pictures existed for over a decade before anything resembling a star system appeared. Then, within the space of a very few years, American cinema went from being completely devoid of stars to being completely dependent on them. Picture Personalities is an invaluable account of this crucial development in cinema and modern culture.

Conventional wisdom attributes the rise of the star system to the charisma of individual performers or to the public's desire to idolize an appealing star. In Picture Personalities, Richard deCordova argues that the fledgling movie industry and the press conspired to develop the star system, along with a system of discourse to support it.

How actors became stars and how they began to assume public identities distinct from their fictional roles was closely tied to the journalistic discourse of the period, produced by the trade press, newspapers, general periodicals, fan magazines, publicity stills, posters, and other material. DeCordova shows how the studios worked to fabricate moral images of the stars' marriages and personal lives and how a series of star scandals in the 1920s challenged those images and brought about changes in the conventions of representing stars. A new foreword by Corey K. Creekmur enhances this first paperback edition.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard deCordova was an associate professor in the Department of Communication at De Paul University. Corey K. Creekmur, an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa, is coeditor of Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
025207016X
ISBN 13 
9780252070167
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
184
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Personne responsable
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