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Stellar Encounters
Stardom in Popular Cinema
By Tytti Stoila, Stockholm University, Sweden
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. Stellar Encounters provides the reader with previously unpublished material to study and evaluate the different practices of stardom in Europe - and the "meanings" produced by them - and to consider some initial conclusions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.
John Libbey Publishing
Oct 2008 350pp £20.99 PB: 9780861966790
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