Jeanine Basinger, The Star Machine The system of star making; the machine from the late 1920s to 1960. The practical business of manfacturng illusions How the machine worked? The business of making commodities out of real-living individuals Stars as manufactured commodi. The goal was to find potential stars, create, shape and polish them and then […]
Movie Stars: Approach, Theory, Bibli0, Basinger, Jeremy Butler’s Star Texts (Bogart)
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100 Books: Texts That Influenced My Thinking–“Your God is Alive and Well and Appearing in Popular Culture,” by John Wiley Nelson
October 20, 2022 by
Through mediums like Westerns, country music, and detective novels, John Nelson explains how we internalize our American values without even knowing it.
Queer Cinema: Contemporary France–Five Directors
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Queer Cinema: Contemporary France–Five Directors
Film Theory: Watt, Ian–Rise of the Novel (Applied to Rise of the Film)
October 16, 2022 by
For Watt, the novel’s ‘novelty’ was its ‘formal realism,’ the idea ‘that the novel is a full and authentic report of human experience.’
Status and Culture: W. David Marx’s New Book on Creativity and Stagnation, Indies and Blockbusters
October 14, 2022 by
The entire dialogue gets sucked into these blockbusters. We feel like we have to have opinion on them, and people may be resentful of that.
