Hollywood Stardom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicester : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.

Summary:

By integrating star studies and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom. Integrates the traditions of star studies and industry studies to establish an original and innovative mode of analysis whereby the 'star image' is replaced with the 'star brand' Offers the first extensive analysis of stardom in the 'post-studio' era Combines genre, narrative, acting, and discourse analysis with aspects of marketing theory and the economic analysis of the film market Draws on an extensive body of research data not previously deployed in film scholarship A wide range of star examples are explored including George Clooney, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, and Julia Roberts.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Star Business

1: The Symbolic Commerce of Hollywood Stardom

Commercial and Symbolic Dynamics of Film Stardom

1. Industrially produced fame

2. Mediated fame

3. Dispersed fame

4. Reproduced fame

5. Commodified fame

Bankability, A-list Status and the Talent Hierarchy

Hollywood Stars, 1990-2009

Genre, Actorly, Prestige and Posthumous Stardoms

The Star Market

Notes

2: Star-as-Brand

Branding and Stardom

The Functions of Star Names

Extending the Star Brand

Stardom as Endorsement

3: The Extraordinary Ordinariness of Tom Hanks

"Mr Popularity"

Ordinary Guy, Extraordinary Situation

Re-working the Hanks Brand

Banking Captain Miller

Continuity and Change in the Star Brand

Part Two: Star System

4: Post-Studio Stardom

Vertically Integrated Stardom

Conglomerate Hollywood

Representation to the Stars

Star-Producers

Sources of Stars

Dependently Independent Stars

5: Money and Talent

Stars and the Box Office, 1990-2009

Talent Inflation

Gross Deals

Re-modeling Star Compensation

Controlling the Stars?

6: "The Will Smith Business"

Cross-media Stardom

Mr. Smith Goes to Hollywood

Sindiependence

Smith and the Global Film Market

Note

Part Three: Star Performance

7: Spectacular Acts

Star Attraction

The Performance of the Medium

The Performance of the Actor

Branded Performance

8: Prestige Stardom and the Awards System

Cultural Production and Symbolic Capital

Middle-brow Hollywood and the Prestige Star

Daniel Day-Lewis and Anti-Star Stardom

The Symbolic Authority of the Oscars

Oscar Prestige and Legitimized Acting

Prestige vs. Profit?

Notes.

9: Starring Julia Roberts

Defining the Brand

Enacting and Staging the Brand

Producing Oscar Prestige

Falling Star

10: Conclusion

Appendix: Academy Award Nominees and Winners in the Actress and Actor in a Leading Role Categories, 1990-2009

References

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: McDonald, Paul Hollywood Stardom

ISBN:

9781118321669

OCLC:

827207866