Harris Michel Editor (3 results)

[0-415-05218-1] 1991. (Trade paperback) Very good. 340pp. Notes, illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. Several pages are dog-eared, there is highlighting on page XIV, and an ink mark on p. 209. "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. Drawn from film history, sociology, textual analysis, audience research, psychoanalysis and cultural politics, the[se] essays raise important questions for the politics of representation, the impact of stars on society and the cultural limitations and possibilities of stars". Includes Karen Alexander, Andrew Britton, Richard Decordova, Richard Dyer, Charles Eckert, Jane Marie Gaines, Behroze Gandhy, Christine Gledhill, Miriam Hansen, Thomas Harris, Charlotte Cornelia Herzog, Barry King, David Lusted, Kobena Mercer, Michel Mourlet, Tessa Perkins, Jackie Stacey, Janet Staiger, Rosie Thomas, John O. Thompson, Andrea Weiss & Charles Wolfe. (Movies, Movies).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 294 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. Pp. xvi+194, 8 coloured plates, numerous black & white illustrations (some full page), notes, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London, 2012. First edition. Publishing Pathways series. *'Leading specialists examine aspects of the relationship between the business of print and the practice of art and design across five centuries. The role played by the book trade in the diffusion of artistic and architectural theory, fashion, and practice is explored, while other essays trace the impact on the appearance of books themselves of aesthetic trends and of advances in the techniques of binding, colour printing and illustration' [wrapper blurb].…