A reader

by Holmes, Susan Redmond, Sean

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Full title :A reader / edited by Sean Redmond, Su Holmes.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.
Edition:Illustrated ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):[distributor] SAGE Publications Ltd, SAGE Publications Inc, US
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

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The Physical Object

Description:400 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 x 17 x 2 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781412923217, 1412923212
oclc:ocn851988946
Dewey Decimal:306.4

PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTS The Nature of Charismatic Domination -- Max Weber The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Walter Benjamin The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception -- Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer Myth Today -- Roland Barthes "THAT-HAS-BEEN" -- The Pose -- The Luminous Rays, Colour -- Amazement -- Authentification -- Roland Barthes The Ecstasy of Communication -- Jean Baudrillard PART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOM The Powerless Elite -- Franceso Alberoni Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars Stars -- Richard Dyer Heavenly Bodies -- Richard Dyer Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon -- John Ellis Re-examining Stardom -- Christine Geraghty Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance From Beyond Control to In Control -- Rebecca Williams Investigating Barrymore's Feminist Agency/Authorship PART THREE: FAME -- REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OF STARDOM AND CELEBRITY The Emergence of.