Output details
36 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
University of Nottingham
Book title
Hollywood Stardom
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN of book
9781405179829
Year of publication
2013
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
Hollywood Stardom (approximately 107,000 words) challenges the focus on the textual construction of ‘star images’ which has dominated star studies by arguing any understanding of film stardom must look beyond issues of meaning to recognize how stars are always both economic and symbolic, or commercial and cultural, entities. This broad conceptual argument is set within the particular historical circumstances of the Hollywood film business in the decades 1990 to 2010. Research for this book was principally conducted through nine visits over five years to the research library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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