CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Richard Dyer, Method Acting, Studio System
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Topic: stardom, date: 8 march 2016: defining a star, understanding stars in economic terms, understanding stars in cultural terms, understanding stars in textual terms. Defining a star the publication of his book stars in 1979. extratextual materials. Understanding stars in cultural terms it the dominant culture or some counter-culture). moment and geographic site of their emergence. inspire acts of both introjection and projection. These two they function intertextually and extratextually; that is, we must think about the persona they bring to a role. options play with viewer expectations in different ways. Stars can be authors of a sort to the film itself as it lets the audience understand the film in some way. Manufactured and constructed image, not the actual person but their persona. Stars are constructed through a combination of textual, intertextual and extratextual. People thinking about actors as being the same as their role, being compared as similar, or featuring them as their character (textual)
