Stardom: Industry of Desire - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415052173 ISBN 13: 9780415052177

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

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 last decade which seeks to understand the phemomenon of stars and stardom. Gathered under four headings - The System, Stars and Society, Performers and Signs, Desire and Politics - these essays represent a range of approaches drawn from film history, sociolgy, textual analysis, audience research, psychoanalysis, and cultural politics. They raise important issues about the politics of representation and the cultural limitations and possibilities of stars.

About this title

Synopsis:

Newspapers, magazines, TV chat shows, record sleeves - all display a proliferation of film star images. In the past we have tended to see stars as cogs in a mass entertainment industry selling desires and ideologies. But since the 1970s, new approaches have explored the active role of the star in producing meanings, pleasures and identities for a diversity of audiences. Stardom brings together some of the best recent writing which represents these new approaches. Drawn from film history, sociology, textual analysis, audience research, psychoanalysis and cultural politics, the essays raise important questions for the politics of representation, the impact of stars on society and the cultural limitations and possibilities of stars.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0415052173
• ISBN 13: 9780415052177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Gledhill Christine