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Film Stars
Author | : Andrew Willis |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2004-09-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0719056454 |
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This book takes as its focus film stars from the past and present, from Hollywood, its margins and beyond and analyzes them through a close consideration of their films and the variety of contexts in which they worked. Essays spread the net wide, looking at past stars from Rosalind Russell and Charlton Heston to present-day stars including Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, as well as those figures who have earned a certain film star cachet such as Prince, and the martial artist Cynthia Rothrock.
Famous Wisconsin Film Stars
Author | : Kristin Gilpatrick |
Publsiher | : Badger Books Inc. |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1878569864 |
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From Agnes Morehead to the Zucker Brothers, Wisconsin has produced a large cast of film stars. They include serious actors like Spencer Tracy and Gena Rowlands; comics like Chris Farley and Gene Wilder; and directors like Orson Wells and Nicholas Ray.
Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle
Author | : Eric L. Flom |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2009-03-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786439089 |
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Before they became household names, many would-be Hollywood stars began their careers as small-time actors in regional theatres and playhouses. Few of them earned much recognition based on their time in the footlights, but often the stage provided these Hollywood hopefuls with their first break in show business. Drawing on material from the J. Willis Sayre Collection, a nearly unbroken accumulation of theatrical programs from 1865 to 1955, this book chronicles the Seattle stage engagements of more than 30 silent film personalities. Such Hollywood giants as Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, D.W. Griffith, and Buster Keaton, to name just a few, can trace their early careers through the Emerald City.
Indian Film Stars
Author | : Michael Lawrence |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781911239932 |
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Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures in India during the 20th and 21st centuries. The contributors seek to inspire and inform further inquiries into the histories of film stardom-the industrial construction and promotion of star personalities, the actual labouring and imagined lifestyles of professional stars, the stars' relationship to specific aesthetic cinematic conventions (such as frontality and song-dance) and production technologies (such as the play-back system and post-synchronization), and audiences' investment in and devotion to specific star bodies-across the country's multiple centres of film production and across the overlapping (and increasingly international) zones of the films' distribution and reception. The star images, star bodies and star careers discussed are examined in relation to a wide range of issues, including the negotiation and contestation of tradition and modernity, the embodiment and articulation of both Indian and non-Indian values and vogues; the representation of gender and sexuality, of race and ethnicity, and of cosmopolitan mobility and transnational migration; innovations and conventions in performance style; the construction and transformation of public persona; the star's association with film studios and the mainstream media; the star's relationship with historical, political and cultural change and memory; and the star's meaning and value for specific (including marginalised) sectors of the audience.
Chinese Film Stars
Author | : Mary Farquhar,Yingjin Zhang |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781136993473 |
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This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of ethnic Chinese film stars from the silent period to the era of globalization. Whereas studies of stars and stardom have developed considerably in the West over the past two decades, there is no single book in English that critically addresses issues related to stars and stardom in Chinese culture. Chinese Film Stars offers exemplary readings of historically, geographically and aesthetically multifaceted star phenomena. An international line up of contributors test a variety of approaches in making sense of discourses of stars and stardom in China and the US, explore historical contexts in which Chinese film stars are constructed and transformed in relation to changing sociopolitical conditions, and consider issues of performance and identity specific to individual stars through chapter-by-chapter case studies. The essays explore a wide range of topics such as star performance, character type, media construction, political propaganda, online discourses, autobiographic narration, as well as issues of gender, genre, memory and identity. Including fifteen case studies of individual Chinese stars and illustrated with film stills throughout, this book is an essential read for students of Chinese film, media and cultural studies.
Film Stars
Author | : Liz Gogerly |
Publsiher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2012-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781448871179 |
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Todays hottest movie stars are profiled in this glamorous volume. Readers will learn the secrets of success for each star. Zac Efron, Robert Pattison, and Amanda Seyfried are just three of the young stars covered. Quotes and photographs supplement fascinating text.
East Asian Film Stars
Author | : L. Wing-Fai,A. Willis |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2014-05-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781137029195 |
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Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their insights into the work of regional and transnational screen legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas.
French Film Stars Paper Dolls
Author | : Tom Tierney |
Publsiher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2005-03-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780486441320 |
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Sixteen lovely legends, among them Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Binoche, Leslie Caron, Danielle Darrieux, and Catherine Deneuve. Biographical notes; costume descriptions.