The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350272255)

Vendor: Andrew Shail
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The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema

$36.95

The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema

$36.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Andrew Shail
ISBN-10: 1350272256
ISBN-13: 9781350272255
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2022
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.86d
By Andrew Shail
By Andrew Shail
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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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