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Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity
- Film, Fame, and Personal Worth
Engelsk Hardback
Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity
- Film, Fame, and Personal Worth
Engelsk Hardback

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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. Tracing the history of this conundrum back to the philosophy of the seventeenth century and the theatre of the eighteenth, she demonstrates its convergence in stage melodrama and its intensification in the Hollywood star system. Are today’s celebrities worth our attention? In that demand for judgement and the hope for its visual guidance, the melodramatic imagination survives – permeating not only fiction film, but documentary, the artist’s film, and our self-exhibition on social media.

Examining a range of classical and contemporary films from Charlie Chaplin''s City Lights (1931) to Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour (2014) , the many remakes of A Star Is Born, the compulsory exhibitionism of political celebrity and the unmasking of whistle-blowers, Merck illustrates the ways in which the cinema constantly restages the moral evaluation of prominent individuals, whether they are actors, artists, politicians or activists.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9781911239758
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1911239759
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
17 sep 2020
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
240mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
17 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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