Two Generations Of Female Stars In Hollywood
At the beginning of the 1980s, Quigley's top ten, which lists the stars considered by exhibitors as the biggest box office attractions of the year, included as many as four women, yet afterwards there were at most three, and usually only one or two in 1983 there was none at all Moser, 2000 14 . With the exception of Bo Derek, the female stars ranked in the top ten during the 1980s were in their thirties and forties Jane Fonda born in 1937 , Barbra Streisand 1942 , Goldie Hawn 1945 , Bette...
Crossing Over The Appeals And Complications Of Filmmusic Synergies
The release of Men in Black appeared to mark a perfect moment of corporate synergy, with Smith at its heart. The film, in which Smith starred alongside Tommy Lee Jones, was distributed by Columbia Pictures it was produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment , part of the Sony Corporation. The music - a soundtrack album including the main theme, also released as the 'B-side' to the single 'Gettin'Jiggy With It' - was released by Columbia Records, another branch of the Sony empire as was...
The Decline Of Metonymic Servitude
Acting is a personal service, inalienably vested in the person of the actor. Even though this person is variously modified by training, professional experience, cosmetic alteration, performance techniques and technologies, its ground remains deeply proprietorial, legally protected by the actor's name and likeness. Of course, there are definite limits on each actor's personal input into the process of portrayal. The majority of actors - walk-ons, supporting players - are destined to serve as...
Contents
Introduction - Martin Barker 1 Section 1 Star Systems 1 Paul McDonald Stars in the Online Universe Promotion, Nudity, Reverence 29 2 Barry King Embodying an Elastic Self The Parametria of Contemporary Stardom 45 3 Geoff King Stardom in the Willennium 62 4 Matt Hills Putting Away Childish Things Jar Jar Binks and the 'Virtual Star' as an Object 5 Paul Wells To Affinity and Beyond Woody, Buzz and the New Authenticity 90 6 Christine Geraghty Performing as a Lady and a Dame Reflections on Acting...
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The promise of star studies was that it might allow one to address the organization of the industry, the properties of individual texts, and the experiences of the audience, and to relate all three within a small and coherent focus. Paul McDonald stresses that this promise of star studies has been unfulfilled because existing studies have 'made reference to the audience but tended to ignore the industry' 1995 80 . I would add that although existing studies may have made reference to the...
Bodies Voices And Identity In Batman Forever
Actors' own statements and those of journalistic commentators tended to emphasise image styling and the physical labour of performance in the Batman films, rather than the emotional, psychological or oratorical demands of acting.27 For instance, Premiere magazine's on-set report from Batman opened with this description of Keaton at work Oh, man, this mask is the worst. Your neck feels like it's in a vice, you've got no peripheral vision, and you can't really hear. . And the sweat - ten takes,...
Star Studies And Media Affects Of Love And Hate
Unlike other areas of film and cultural studies, star studies has always reserved a conceptual space for affect. The fan's 'it just started from there' Barker and Brooks, 1998 67 has always been implied in star studies, even where 'empirical' audiences have not been investigated. Richard Dyer's seminal Stars, for example, suggests that 'particularly intense star-audience relationships occur amongst adolescents and women. These groups Dyer also discusses 'gay ghetto culture' all share a...
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filming. Even for the ordinary actor, the nominal husk of a character has the potential to become a persona. But the star can also rely on a history of past projections of persona, which in confronting a new role, funcdons as a personal intellectual property, emblematised by name and likeness Gaines, 1991 .4 The melding of on-screen performance and off screen publicity - both kinds of performance - imparts an existential portability to a fictional character which is wrapped around the being in...
Fake Celebrity Nudes
The internet has also seen the publication of fake celebrity nude sites. In their organisation and structure, these sites closely resemble conventional celebrity nude sites, and similar subscription systems also apply. What differentiates fake sites is their content. Images of stars are digitally manipulated to create naked images or construct scenarios displaying stars in erotic contexts. Star faces are grafted on to naked bodies, and the faker's best efforts are made to hide the join....
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As a cultural product, Batman offers polysemic potential within any single film, in addition to dispersibility across multi-media forms. The character certainly has the mobility to accommodate some shifts in casting, along with possible future changes much as Schumacher's two films have already incorporated gay readings.42 Moreover, as I have demonstrated, the appearances and performances in the role of three different star-actors have had notable impacts upon the meanings of Batman, even while...
The Silence Of The Lambs And The Rise Of Jodie Foster
Sheila Benson's review of Lambs 1991 praised director Jonathan Demme for going beyond 'easy effects calculated to make an audience jump' so as to focus 'on the hypnotic duel between his two strong central characters, an FBI trainee and a brilliant sociopath' Los Angeks Times, 13 February 1991 1 . For Benson, the duel between these characters was also a duel between the actors who portrayed them while, in the film's story, Clarice Starling at best manages a draw with Hannibal Lecter, the clear...
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The relationship of star power i.e. people giving the star individual as their sole reason for attendance with cultural consumption can be seen in some detail in these frequencies. There is a 'Stewart effect' in the Stewart sample and a 'Miller effect' in the Miller sample, with the former being stronger overall 29 per cent of those in the Stewart sample, as opposed to 4 per cent in the Miller sample and 5.5 per cent in the whole sample, named Stewart as their favourite actor 17.4 per cent...
Embodying Am Elastic Self The Param Etrics Of Contemporary Stardom
Recent inquiry into audience perceptions of stars has uncovered a new configuration in the existential parameters of stardom Gamson, 1994 . Today's stars - Madonna is the favourite example - epitomise the postmodern self, a de-centred subject, deeply reflexive and disdainful of the claims of identity. How rigorously the notion of textual dissemination can be applied to human identity or, more to the point, to a commercially valuable persona is an important question begged by such musings....