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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"stardom"”.
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The Audrey Hepburn Image: Stardom, Gendered Authorship, and Creative Agency
<p>Female stardom was an essential component to the star system and film industry in Hollywood’s Golden Age. During the postwar era, one of the most influential female stars was Academy award winning actress, Audrey Hepburn. Hepburn’s emergence in the industry, as well as her branding as a “postwar …
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Stardom, Spectacle, Show, and Salability: United Artists and the Founding of the Hollywood Blockbuster Model
… increased emphasis and innovation in regard to stardom, spectacle, show, and salability, features which ultimately innovated the model for the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster. Attributing the formation of the blockbuster to United Artists not only complicates the notion of the Hollywood …
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Revitalizing Hollywood Stardom: Classical Star Power and Enduring Marketability at Warner Bros. in the Beginning of New Hollywood
… context suggested a prominent power of stardom to effectively sustain the business in the new wave of new youth and counterculture. In the inception of the period, Warner Bros., one of the major film studios since the classical Hollywood era, exemplified a star-driven marketing approach …
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The Construction of Tang Wei as a Star in contemporary China: Performance, Context, Reception and Politics
… interaction between transnational Chinese female stardom and the current post-socialist Chinese ideological milieu through a case study of Tang Wei?s stardom. While this study is informed by Western theoretical discourses about star studies, it hopes to contribute to the growing scholarly terrain …
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Married to the cape: Adam West, Batman and signature roles on the small screen
… ‘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 best known for playing the titular role in the television series Batman (ABC: 1966-1968), which became a worldwide phenomenon after its debut in 1966. …
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'From local hero to national star?' : the changing cultural representation of the professional footballer in England, 1945-1984
… non-linear model for the development of football stardom. Instead of the binary opposition of the local hero/national star trope, it argues that footballers' star images embody different male cultural types. Types are complex constructions, that mutate in relation to changes within football and in …
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The Volkswagen Junior World Masters 2010 - film series
… childhood dream of achieving global soccer stardom. By becoming an important stepping-stone in the possible fulfillment of that dream, Volkswagen is tactically aligning itself with the increasingly self-interested proclivities of Generation Me.
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Of Gods and Girls: The Teen Superheroine in British and American Girls' Comics from 1940-1984
… for her audience, often using the language of stardom and celebrity, thus creating a specifically (and less threatening to patriarchal power structures) feminine form of the superhero. Finally, the super-girl’s body, which fluidly moves between passive and active forms, is considered a queer …
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Listen Like This: Audiovisual Argument in Rockumentary
… tendencies to be examined in relation to stardom, authenticity, fandom, the culture industry, and the music(ians) these films represent. My introduction argues that rockumentaries operate according to what I call the <em>offstage pattern</em>, a dialectical structure in which onstage and …
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Producing Popularity: The Success in France of the Comics Series "Astérix le Gaulois"
… catapult Astérix, the series' protagonist, into stardom by the middle of the 1960s. In so doing, this study forcefully argues that elements external to the text itself greatly facilitated, and in some ways determined, the series' quick and dramatic rise in popularity in France by 1966. The …
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Gendered Film Criticism and “Intolerable Images”: Representation of Female Trauma in Brady Corbet’s <em>Vox Lux</em> (2018)
… a survivor of a school shooting who rises to pop stardom, depicting an eighteen-year narrative that transforms her personal trauma into a public spectacle and a critique of American culture. Through theoretical frameworks from Judith Lewis Herman, E. Ann Kaplan, Jacques Rancière and Susan Sontag, …
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Trust the Game: Gamification and the Rise of Online Conspiracy Theories
… faked his death to escape the pressures of stardom. Here I find statistically significant evidence that gamification increased the persuasiveness of conspiracy theories. In chapter four, I present a second similarly structured survey-experiment using the conspiracy theory that the 2020 …
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Spiritual business? A critical analysis of the spiritual therapy phenomenon in contemporary Japan
… years and particularly since the rise to media stardom of self-proclaimed "spiritual counsellor" Ehara Hiroyuki, ―"the spiritual" (supirichuaru) has become a buzzword in Japanese popular culture. A look at the shelves of every bookstore reveals that by now, in Japan, almost anything can be …
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Bulimic bodies and “bearers of production” : representing bulimia in Todd Haynes’s Superstar: the Karen Carpenter story and Mika Rottenberg’s NoNoseKnows
… uses Barbie dolls to reenact Karen’s life and stardom leading up to her death, describes Carpenter as anorexic, even though images of Ex-Lax, Ipecac, and toilets populate the film. This thesis uses the visuals of Superstar and of the video NoNoseKnows (2015) by artist Mika Rottenberg, in which …
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Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity
… are not natural candidates for popular stardom? This dissertation argues that magazines, as mainstream media, have played an important role over time in representing opera singers as viable celebrities for national attention and as contributors to American cultural achievement. Using …
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Thrillology: Affective Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture
… an end itself, regardless of any realization of stardom. Finally, these thrillological considerations extend into contemporary American social texts, here embodied by the recurring spectacle of the Super Bowl broadcast and the extravaganza of Apple.com’s 2010 web-based introduction of the iPad. …
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Subjectivity In American popular metal: contemporary gothic, the body, the grotesque, and the child
… to popular music, supplemented by theories of stardom in order to examine subjectivity. The study is situated in the context of the growing area of the contemporary gothic, and produces a model of subjectivity specific to this period: the contemporary gothic subject. This model is then used …
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Smokey the ‘Praying’ Bear: Changing Cultural Attitudes Towards Nature in America During the Postwar Era, 1948 - 1958
… the Smokey Bear campaign used the bear’s rising stardom to promote cultural metaphors that linked nature and spirituality. Beginning in 1948, and continuing through 1958, a series of Smokey public service announcements were produced that depicted America’s favorite bear in devotional settings. …
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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 …