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From talk
shows to the internet to The Enquirer
to the countless star biographies scattered across cable and bookstores,
fascination with celebrities permeates our culture. We can all name favorite stars, and our
desire to learn more about them can fuel our engagements with popular
media. Throughout the twentieth century,
much of the popular writing on cinema has consisted of star biographies and
tell-all memoirs, but scholarly investigations of the star are more
recent. This course revolves around a
critical investigation of the role of the star in historical and contemporary
U.S. culture. In an attempt to analyze
the star phenomenon, this class will focus on the role of the star within the
‘machinery’ of cinema – the ways in which stars function in the entertainment
industry, within cinematic and extra-cinematic texts, and at the level of
individual fantasy and desire.
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