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Stars in Our Eyes : The Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780313010859
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stars in Our EyesDDC classification:
  • 791.43/028/0922
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.2.S695 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Stars in Our Eyes -- Contents -- Introduction -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part I Individual Case Studies -- Chapter 1 The Misleading Man: Dennis Hopper -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 The Replicator: Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Great Meme-Machine -- INTRODUCTION -- THE END OF THE DAZE -- MEMES -- MEMES AND METAPHORS -- MEMES AND DREAMS -- MEMES AND MORPHS -- THE DETACHED MEME -- CONCLUSION -- FUTURE THOUGHTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Choosing Silence: Robert De Niro and the Celebrity Interview -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part II The Cultural Impact of Star Images -- Chapter 4 The Keanu Effect-Stardom and the Landscape of the Acting Body: Los Angeles/Hollywood as Sight/Site -- THE LANDSCAPE THAT IS KEANU AND THE SPACES THAT ARE SPEED -- THE SITE AND SIGHT OF BEAUTY -- KEANU AS STAR AND HOLLYWOOD AS SITE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 More Sign Than Star: Diana, Death, and the Internet -- WHAT HAPPENED? -- WHERE WERE YOU? -- WHAT DID YOU DO? -- WHAT DID YOU THINK? -- TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT -- A SIGN MORE THAN A STAR -- CONCLUSION -- POSTSCRIPT -- APPENDIX: "PEOPLE IN BLACK" BY MICHAEL PUNT6 -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 Virtually Touching the Stars-from the Moon to Heaven's Gate and Beyond -- MEMORIES OF STAR-SPANGLED SCREENS -- SEEING STARS ON THE MIRROR: WE ARE STILL THERE! -- REACHING THE STARS: ARE WE THERE YET? -- HEAVEN'S GATE: LOSING OUR GRIP? -- CONCLUSION: NEW HORIZONS? -- APPENDIX: THE SEVENTEEN ASTRONAUTS WHOSE NAMES APPEAR ON THE SPACE MIRROR MEMORIAL AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part III Directors and Characters as Stars -- Chapter 7 The Auteur as Star: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah -- SAM PECKINPAH: AUTEUR OR STAR? -- PECKINPAH'S WESTERNS AND THE VITALITY OF VIOLENCE.
PECKINPAH AND THE COMPLEXITY OF CINEMATIC VIOLENCE -- VIOLENCE AND UTOPIA: AN INTIMATE RELATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Birth of a Hero: Rocky, Stallone, and Mythical Creation -- MYTH -- STALLONE -- ROCKY -- STARDOM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Digital Stars in Our Eyes -- STAR WARS AND THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION -- "SHE HAS A SET OF POLYGONS LIKE YOU WON'T BELIEVE"2: TOMB RAIDER AND THE LARA CROFT PHENOMENON -- THE FUTURE BREED OF STARS: CREATURES -- SCIENCE FICTION AND MAD SCIENCE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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Cover -- Stars in Our Eyes -- Contents -- Introduction -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part I Individual Case Studies -- Chapter 1 The Misleading Man: Dennis Hopper -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 The Replicator: Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Great Meme-Machine -- INTRODUCTION -- THE END OF THE DAZE -- MEMES -- MEMES AND METAPHORS -- MEMES AND DREAMS -- MEMES AND MORPHS -- THE DETACHED MEME -- CONCLUSION -- FUTURE THOUGHTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Choosing Silence: Robert De Niro and the Celebrity Interview -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part II The Cultural Impact of Star Images -- Chapter 4 The Keanu Effect-Stardom and the Landscape of the Acting Body: Los Angeles/Hollywood as Sight/Site -- THE LANDSCAPE THAT IS KEANU AND THE SPACES THAT ARE SPEED -- THE SITE AND SIGHT OF BEAUTY -- KEANU AS STAR AND HOLLYWOOD AS SITE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 More Sign Than Star: Diana, Death, and the Internet -- WHAT HAPPENED? -- WHERE WERE YOU? -- WHAT DID YOU DO? -- WHAT DID YOU THINK? -- TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT -- A SIGN MORE THAN A STAR -- CONCLUSION -- POSTSCRIPT -- APPENDIX: "PEOPLE IN BLACK" BY MICHAEL PUNT6 -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 Virtually Touching the Stars-from the Moon to Heaven's Gate and Beyond -- MEMORIES OF STAR-SPANGLED SCREENS -- SEEING STARS ON THE MIRROR: WE ARE STILL THERE! -- REACHING THE STARS: ARE WE THERE YET? -- HEAVEN'S GATE: LOSING OUR GRIP? -- CONCLUSION: NEW HORIZONS? -- APPENDIX: THE SEVENTEEN ASTRONAUTS WHOSE NAMES APPEAR ON THE SPACE MIRROR MEMORIAL AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part III Directors and Characters as Stars -- Chapter 7 The Auteur as Star: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah -- SAM PECKINPAH: AUTEUR OR STAR? -- PECKINPAH'S WESTERNS AND THE VITALITY OF VIOLENCE.

PECKINPAH AND THE COMPLEXITY OF CINEMATIC VIOLENCE -- VIOLENCE AND UTOPIA: AN INTIMATE RELATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Birth of a Hero: Rocky, Stallone, and Mythical Creation -- MYTH -- STALLONE -- ROCKY -- STARDOM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Digital Stars in Our Eyes -- STAR WARS AND THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION -- "SHE HAS A SET OF POLYGONS LIKE YOU WON'T BELIEVE"2: TOMB RAIDER AND THE LARA CROFT PHENOMENON -- THE FUTURE BREED OF STARS: CREATURES -- SCIENCE FICTION AND MAD SCIENCE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

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