Heavenly Bodies by Richard Dyer
Film Stars and Society
A cultural study of film stardom that examines how movie stars are constructed as images and social texts, exploring the industrial processes that produce them, the ways their public personas encode gender, sexuality, race and class, and how audiences consume and derive pleasure from these representations; the book argues that stars function ideologically—both reflecting and shaping social values and fantasies—while also revealing the labor, power relations and commercial imperatives behind celebrity culture.
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