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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Star Image"”.
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From Film Sets to Front Lines and Back Again: Reinventing Star Image in Post-World War II Hollywood
… the war effort, some of which included Hollywood stars. There were famous actors in the 1950s and 60s who served as unknown young men, but this thesis focuses on established movie stars who voluntarily left their lives of luxury to serve and returned to a changed postwar film industry, …
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Zeki Müren, a prince from outer space : reading Turkey's gender-bending pop legend as a transmedia star
Zeki Müren is Turkey's beloved queer pop star whose career spans a period between his first radio emission in 1951 and his death during a live television program in 1996. He is a pioneer of 'Turkish Art Music', a trailblazer in utilizing novel mass communication tools, a proud nationalist who …
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Monitor Men: An Intertextual Analysis of Motion Pictures Directed by George Clooney
… one teleplay produced by, movie and television star George Clooney. I argue that traditional critical frameworks for analyzing the work of film directors are not sufficient in approaching the movie-star director. The director who is also a popular screen actor has a signifying function as a …
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Married to the cape: Adam West, Batman and signature roles on the small screen
… addresses a gap in scholarship by theorising star status for those performers whose public image is defined by a single televisual role. It proposes the ‘signature role TV star’ as a new category of stardom by evaluating Adam West as a quintessential example of this type of figure. West was …
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Vigilantes, incorporated: an ideological economy of the superhero blockbuster
… at the intersection of race, textual source, and star image, as filmmakers cast internationally famous Black actors, creating an aura of diversity without examining American race relations. Wary of alienating whites, superhero blockbusters either keep silent about race or treat racism as part of a …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… I study the gendered dynamics between fandom and stardom by bridging the literature on traditional patronage in Chinese opera with that of fan studies in Japanese pop culture. Beyond the exchange of social, cultural, and economic capital, my observation of and interaction with fans during their …