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Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema

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Within the intertwined areas of film, TV and media research, studies of stardom have developed into a rich field with numerous ways of approach. This book offers a collection of essays that make inquiries into aspects of stardom in Europe, studying the significance of the subject, its particular incarnations and areas of possible research within film and TV. The essays enter into a dialogue with each other on many different crisscrossing levels from individual to national, from private (lives) to public (images) and from scholarly ground research to theoretical explication. It is the editor's ambition to provide the reader with this previously unpublished material to study and evaluate the different practices of stardom in Europe - and the "meanings" produced by them - and to consider some initial conclusions that may be drawn from the collection: crucial points and concerns that became manifest while juxtaposing the essays included.Such points are, among others, those dealing with familiarity and the extraordinary, similarity and difference, or individual and community. The contents of the book are, however, arranged in line with a principle that draws attention to the thematic approaches on diverse cases of European stardom. In doing so, we hope to emphasize the variety of ways in which the essays inform each other. This volume is based on contributions to the fourth Popular European Cinema Conference on "Methods and Stars" which had been formulated to attract researchers interested in elucidating the different ways in which stardom and its various cultural definitions, configurations and histories signify in European popular cinema. This book was appointed the Project of the Month by the Swedish Research Council in December 2007 in its capacity of a tribute to the importance of star studies and research in European cinema.First, the book expands on the seemingly contradictory question of why certain truly popular stars have become obliterated from hegemonic accounts of (European) film history. In doing so, this volume also exposes the equally vital impulse to connect stars to a specific national identity - through language and national memory, specific genres or classics in the national canon, stereotyping, other national media, and so on. Stardom may be international (or trans-national) and some stars may export better than others, but national audiences bond with what they perceive as 'their' stars. Yet, some of the authors ask the more puzzling question of whether stars, or a star-system, actually exist in their country, pointing to the inescapable weight of the Hollywood model for film audiences and scholars alike. Tytti Soila is an academic in the Cinema Studies Department at Stockholm University, Sweden.

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Contributors: Alexander Dhoest (Belgium), Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht), Elisabetta Girelli (Scotland), Susan Hayward (Exeter), Vinzenz Hediger (Bochum), Olof Hedling (Sweden), Gunnar Iversen (Trondheim), Harri Kalha, Anu Koivunen (Stockholm), Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm), Annette Kuhn (London), Kimmo Laine (Oulu), Marcia Landy (Pittsburgh), Leif Ove Larsen (Bergen), Paul Lesch (Luxembourg and Miami), Giuliana Muscio (Padua), Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool), Gill Plain (St Andrews), Alexandra Schneider (Berlin), Robert Shail (Lampeter), Maddalena Spazzini (Rome), Andrew Spicer (England), Tytti Soila (Stockholm)

About the Author :
Tytti Stoila is Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780861966790
  • Publisher: John Libbey & Co
  • Publisher Imprint: John Libbey Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0861966791
  • Publisher Date: 06 Mar 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Stardom in Popular European Cinema


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