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fans, stars, and the cult of celebrity

1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed.
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An edition of Movie crazy (2001)

Movie crazy

fans, stars, and the cult of celebrity

1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed.
  • 1 Want to read

"Cecil B. DeMille, David Selznick, Louella Parsons, Joan Crawford - these legendary men and women built an empire called Hollywood. In Movie Crazy, meet another group of powerful players who shaped the film industry - movie fans. MGM, for example, struggled to find a screen name for an actress named Lucille LeSueur. A fan - one of thousands that responded to a contest sponsored by the studio - suggested Joan Crawford.

Using fan club journals, fan letters, and studio production records, Samantha Barbas reveals how the passion, enthusiasm, and sometimes possessive advocacy of fans transformed early cinema, the modern mass media, and American popular culture.".

"Barbas sheds new light on the development of the cult of celebrity in America, and demonstrates that while fans were avid consumers of the film industry, they did not mindlessly accept the images presented to them by the studios. Rather, by writing letters, making visits to Hollywood, and organizing fan clubs, they sought to actively influence the ways in which studios created movie stars and packaged them to the public.

Far from being passive viewers, fan reacted to movies and stars with excitement, anger, confusion, joy, and even boredom - they were often complex, and never predictable."--BOOK JACKET.

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218

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2002, Palgrave Macmillan
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2001, Palgrave
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-215) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
302.23/43
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.A8 B37 2002, D1-DX301

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Pagination
218 p. :
Number of pages
218

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Open Library
OL3707593M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1403960453
LCCN
2003279580
Library Thing
517810
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