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On its original publication in 1980 this text was one of the first attempts to bring together all the various critical and theoretical approaches that have been made to the phenomenon of stardom, both inside and outside the cinema. Richard Dyer's commentary on these approaches and his own detailed work on stars such as Bette Davis and Jane Fonda aim to stimulate further work in this area of film studies. This revised edition features a new chapter by Paul McDonald which traces the developments in the study of "Stars" since the first appearance of Richard Dyer's text.
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2 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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There is no doubt that Richard Dyer is the father of Star theory, his notions and concepts have supplied the tools necessary to analyze cinema's popular identities. However, his use of language in `Stars' is incredibly dense, to the extent where you feel lost--If language was made to express oneself easily and conveniently from one entity to the other, I do not understand why writers try to explain things with such dramatic phrase formulation and complicated vocabulary. Some say you need complex language to convey complex ideas--bollocks, everything can be broken down into simple and plain `this and that.' I study literature and linguistics and Richard Dyer is perhaps one of the most disorganized writers I've ever read. He has million dollar ideas but they are presented in such a disorganized manner, you'd wish you never bought this book. It is hard to stay focused and interested when you have to re-read every paragraph as if it were a science book. Film writers want to prove that film studies is an intellectual subject, so they use complicated language to satisfy their own fears within the academic circles. Save yourself the trouble and read a summary or a simpler book which explains his theories of stars. In any case buy a dictionary along with the book and hire an English teacher for this read because not even T.S Eliot could have pulled of something this confused.
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Serious study of the subject in case, i.e. Hollywood stars
25 Mar 2000
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In his new edition of "Stars", Richard Dyer presents its readers with results of his thorough study about stars in/and Hollywood. It is a good read for anyone, who is seriously interested in a "star phenomenon" in particular, and "Hollywood phenomenon" in general. Step by step, Dyer focuses on topics such as "stars as a social phenomenon", "stars as images", and "stars as characters in films". He supports his findings with numeorus examples of many different films and actors, such as Al Pacino, Malylin Monroe, Tipi Hedren, etc. He also mentiones Jane Fonda in depth as an illustration of a specific image construction in Hollywood. One can only hope that in his upcoming edition, Dyer will expand his study to include examples of contemporary stars, since Hollywood dynamics keeps changing drastically every decade or two.
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