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The Star System:

Hollywood and the Production of Popular Identities
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Wallflower Press, 2000 - Performing Arts - 134 pages

Looks at the development and changing organization of the star system in the American film industry. Tracing the popularity of star performers from the early "cinema of attractions" to the Internet universe, Paul McDonald explores the ways in which Hollywood has made and sold its stars. Through focusing on particular historical periods, case studies of Mary Pickford, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith illustrate the key conditions influencing the star system in silent cinema, the studio era and the New Hollywood.

  

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User Review  - Belinda - Goodreads

Like all of the Shortcuts books that I've read, this provides a really detailed background and history of the development of the Hollywood star system. I gave it three rather than four stars only because it focuses on star labour and production whereas my interests like in image and semiotics. Read full review

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Contents

making the system
15
controlling the system
39
rethinking the system
67
index of names
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About the author (2000)

Paul McDonald is senior lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK. His additional chapter in Richard Dyer's classic text "Stars" was published in 1998.

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