كتاب
Taking fame to market: on the pre-history and post-history of Hollywood stardom
| العنوان: | Taking fame to market: on the pre-history and post-history of Hollywood stardom |
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| المؤلفون: | King, Barry, 1944- author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| وصف مادي: | vii, 256 pages ; 23 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Motion picture industry -- United States., Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States., Fame -- Social aspects -- United States., Fame -- Economic aspects -- United States., Branding (Marketing) -- United States., PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism., PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism., SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies., Branding (Marketing), Fame -- Economic aspects., Fame -- Social aspects., Motion picture actors and actresses., Motion picture industry. |
| الوصف: | "The study of stars and celebrities is awash with enticing terms that compound the magic and mystery of their luminous subjects. Taking Fame to Market is the first critical exploration of the relationship between stardom as a form of popular heroism and as a commodity produced by capitalist enterprise. Beginning with an examination of the first star, David Garrick, King charts the representation of stars through a line of development that ends with the 'pure' celebrity of contemporary times, as exemplified by Lady Gaga. His case studies, which discuss the relationships of stars and celebrities with their fans, are placed in their social context and raise pertinent questions about the likely effects on audience perception of fame. King applies a new grammar of stardom to explore the differences between the stars of yesteryear and today's 'superstars', who are famous more from what they appear to be than for what they do. This phenomenon has been noted before, but the aim of this book is to explain it"-- |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Cover; Taking Fame to Market; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Coming to terms; Acting and the semiotics of visibility; 1: Unsettling Identities: From Custom to Price; The new order of the market as a risk society; Merchant psychology; Theatre and the market; From politeness to etiquette; To be is a matter of taste; 2: The Formation of Stardom; Garrick's path to stardom; Garrick's progress: from wage labourer to impresario; The space of stardom; The tactics of identity; The representational grammar of acting; 3: Garrick as a Personage. The spatialization of identity in actingKEY; Early stars and the vestigial persona; Enter Kean; 4: Emergent Modes of Stellar Being; The market erosion of personage; The transatlantic transfer; A proto-cinema; Americanizing cinema; 5: Writing the Stars; Positioning stardom; A small history of synoptic binding; Parsing stardom; Anagraphic positioning; Biographic positioning; 6: The High Tide of Biography; The context for Autography; The other side of the field: the gauge of the audience; 7: The Rise of Autography; Enter Confidential; The seeding of autography; People Magazine. Sharon writes herself8: The End of Seeming; (1) Macaulay eats a pizza; (2) Lady Gaga; Stardom, celebrity and commodity life; Fame as tokenism; Notes; Introduction; 1 Unsettling Identities: From Custom to Price; 2 The Formation of Stardom; 3 Garrick as a Personage; 4 Emergent Modes of Stellar Being; 5 Writing the Stars; 6 The High Tide of Biography; 7 The Rise of Autography; 8 The End of Seeming; Bibliography; Index. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn910950760 ocn884961855 (PromptCat)40024386306 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-137-34427-4 1-137-34427-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014269470.3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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