Pantheon Books | ISBN:0307377660 | File Type: PDF, 448 pages | File size: 54.Mb | Sep. 18th, 2012
General Popular Culture Social Science: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame Ty Burr film critic for The Boston Globe gives us a history of stardom from the dawn of cinema to the age of the Internet with stops along the way to discuss the talkies Brando The Beatles lonelygirl15 and much much more How and why do we focus on those individuals we come to call stars How does stardom both reflect and mask the person behind it How have the image of stardom and our stars images changed over the past hundred years What does celebrity mean if people can become famous simply for being famous Ty Burr answers these questions in this lively wonderfly anecdotal history of stardom both its blessings and its curses for the star and the stargazer alike From Florence Lawrence Mary ickford and Charlie Chaplin to Archie Leach a k a Cary Grant Ruby Stevens a k a Barbara Stanwyck and Marion Morrison a k a John Wayne to Jim Belushi Tom Cruise and Jia Roberts to such no cal stars of today as the Kardashians and the new online celebrity i e you and me Burr takes us on a brilliantly insightf and entertaining journey through the modern fame game at its flashiest its most indgent occasionally its most tragic and timately its most cturally revealing
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