Star Decades
Series: American Culture/American Cinema
Series Editors:
Adrienne L. McLean
Murray Pomerance
Scope of the Series:
Each volume in the series
Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema presents original
essays analyzing the movie star against the background of contemporary
American cultural history. As icon, as mediated personality, and
as object of audience fascination and desire, the Hollywood star
remains the model for celebrity in modern culture and represents a
paradoxical combination of achievement, talent, ability, luck,
authenticity, superficiality, and ordinariness. In all of the
volumes, stardom is studied as an effect of, and influence on, the
particular historical and industrial contexts that enabled a star to be
“discovered,” to be featured in films, to be promoted and publicized,
and ultimately to become a recognizable and admired—even sometimes
notorious—feature of the cultural landscape. Understanding when,
how, and why a star “makes it,” dazzling for a brief moment or enduring
across decades, is especially relevant given the ongoing importance of
mediated celebrity in an increasingly visualized world. We hope
that our approach produces at least some of the surprises and delight
for our readers that stars themselves do.
Books in the Series:
SHINING IN
SHADOWS: Movie Stars of the 2000s
edited by
Murray Pomerance
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