Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth to social esteem.
Working with a varied and untraditional cast of characters—Wyatt Earp, Jack London, Clara Bow, Gertrude Stein, and Ida Lupino—author Marsha Orgeron examines the Hollywood ambitions of a fading western legend, a successful popular author ...
... celebrity film culture that was increasingly depicted in negative, feminized terms. Ironically, as we shall see, the very success of celebrity culture and the reading practices promoted in Hollywood interviews helped to fuel anxieties ...
Cary Grant), Tom Cruise, and Julia Roberts, to such no-cal stars of today as the Kardashians and the new online celebrity, Gods Like Us is a journey through the fame game at its flashiest, most indulgent, occasionally most tragic, and ...
... film. Matt starred in the movie alongside Jodie Foster. The film was released on August 9, 2013. Elysium grossed over eleven million dollars on its opening day. The Monuments Men is American drama film directed, produced, co-written and ...
He analyzes issues of foreign censorship and government intervention in the making of The Bitter Tea of General Yen; the response of high school students to It Happened One Night; fan engagement with the overtly political discourse of Meet ...
... celebrity. The glamorization of the star in a portrait shot suggests the celebrity status of the actor and his or her importance as a film player, one anchored with the name of the home studio below the layout. At the same time ...
... film was remastered and premiered on eighty IMAX films in the United States of America. The film had a final gross of four hundred and ninety-four million dollars, making it the fifth highest grossing animated film in 2010, behind Toy ...
The Los Angeles area feels almost alive with movie history. It is impossible to walk down any neighborhood block that didn't play host to movie history on some level.