The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema - Paperback
by Andrew Shail
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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew ShailTheme:Chronological Period/20th CenturyPublish date:2/24/2022Pages:424
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350272255ISBN-10:1350272256UPC:9781350272255Book Category:History, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Film, Popular CultureBook Topic:20th Century, History & CriticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.586Product ID:SCNG4QZ35T
Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early 20th century. Modifying and supplementing Richard deCordova's account of the birth of the US star system, Shail describes the complex set of economic circumstances that led film studios and actors to consent to the adoption of a star system. He then explores the film industry's turn, from 1908, to making character-based series films. He details how these characters both prefigured and precipitated the star system, demonstrating that series characters and the 'firmament' of film stars are functionally equivalent, and shows how openly fictional characters still provide the model for 'real' film stars.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350272255ISBN-10:1350272256UPC:9781350272255Book Category:History, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Film, Popular CultureBook Topic:20th Century, History & CriticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.586Product ID:SCNG4QZ35T
Andrew Shail is Senior Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism (2012), co-author, with Robin Stoate, of Back to the Future (2010), editor of Reading the Cinematograph (2011) and coeditor of Neurology and Modernity (2010), Menstruation: A Cultural History (2005), and the journal Early Popular Visual Culture.
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