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Movie crazy : fans, stars, and the cult of celebrity / Samantha Barbas.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.A8 B37 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbas, Samantha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture audiences.
- Fans (Persons).
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- Cecil B. DeMille, David Selznick, Louella Parsons, Joan Crawford -- these legendary men and women built an empire called Hollywood. In Movie Crazy, meet another group of powerful players who shaped the film industry -- the fans. Using fan club journals, fan letters, and studio production records, Samantha Barbas reveals how the passion, enthusiasm, and sometimes possessive advocacy of fans transformed early cinema, the modern mass media, and American popular culture.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 From Reel to Real 9
- Chapter 2 The Cult of Personality 35
- Chapter 3 The Chance of a Lifetime 59
- Chapter 4 The Inside Scoop 85
- Chapter 5 The Movie Star Fan Club 109
- Chapter 6 The View from Hollywood 135
- Chapter 7 The Fandom Menace 159.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312239629
- OCLC:
- 45835597
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