Show people a history of the film star
"Show People offers a comprehensive history of the idea of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, and Asia. Renowned film writer Michael Newton explores our enduring love affair with fame, gl...
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London :
Reaktion Books
2019
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004002889708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mary Pickford: the biograph girl
- Pola Negri: inventing the star
- Charlie Chaplin: the tramp
- 'Asta' and Cheeta': the animal star
- Peter Lorre: character actor
- Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly: a star danced
- Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant: the public image
- Vivien Leigh: ruinous selves
- Veronica Lake: half-obscured faces
- Carole Lombard: the screwball heroine
- Greer Garson and Joan Fontaine: the forgotten star
- Orson Welles: the film star as fragment and failure
- Ingrid Bergman: intermezzo
- Lamberto Maggiorani and Maria Pia Casilio: absent film stars in Vittorio de Sica's films
- Moira Shearer: the marionette
- Gloria Swanson: having a face
- Ava Gardner: I am not an actress
- Montgomery Clift: he's not there
- Setsuko Hara: the still point
- Toshiro Mifune: studying lions
- Nargis and Raj Kapoor: my heart is Hindustani
- Giulette Masina and Marcello Mastroianni: nothing is sadder than laughter
- John Wayne: how to grow old
- Audrey Hepburn: Frankenstein's creature
- Marilyn Monroe: the suffering star
- Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner: Imitation of life
- Janet Leigh and Tippi Hedren: torturing the audience
- Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant: the strange death of the Hollywood golden age
- Anna Karina: the muse
- Celia Johnson and Julie Christie: the adulterous star
- Sidney Poitier: the defiant one
- Dustin Hoffman: little big man
- Woody Allen: the director as star
- Robert de Niro: for real
- Harrison Ford: Blade runner and the replication of the person
- Maggei Cheung: centre stage
- Naomi Watts: Mulholland Drive
- Scarlett Johansson: a new kind of emptiness
- Shu Qi: a placeless heaven
- Andy Serkis: Lear's shadow
