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The Stardom Film
Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale
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English
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2021
About this book
Since the movie industry’s earliest days, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. In the first book to focus exclusively on these modern fairy tales, Karen McNally traces the history of this genre from silent cinema to contemporary film and television to show its significance to both Hollywood and broader American culture.
Author / Editor information
Karen McNally is senior lecturer in film and television studies at London Metropolitan University. She is the author of When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity (2008), editor of Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays on the Films (2011), and coeditor of The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality, and American Television (2019).
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Steven Cohan, author of Hollywood by Hollywood:
In this short book, Karen McNally covers a lot of ground, ranging from the silent era to contemporary times, and she looks at many films that show the star narrative’s unending currency for Hollywood. The Stardom Film is a well-written, well-researched, and learned introduction to and survey of the Hollywood star narrative.
In this short book, Karen McNally covers a lot of ground, ranging from the silent era to contemporary times, and she looks at many films that show the star narrative’s unending currency for Hollywood. The Stardom Film is a well-written, well-researched, and learned introduction to and survey of the Hollywood star narrative.
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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1 CORE STARDOM NARRATIVES
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2 GENRE AND HYBRIDITY
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3 CHARACTER, STAR, AND MYTH
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AFTERWORD
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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December 16, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780231851145
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23 black and white film stills
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9780231851145
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Professional and scholarly;
