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Article: STAR IMAGE ICON.
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- CineAction
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 CineAction. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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We have a longstanding interest in and commitment to the study of star images STAR and the construction of a persona both on and off screen. With Richard Dyer's Stars (bfi, London, 1979) a serious contemplation of stars was initiated, but the subject remains a relatively neglected area of critical investigation. One's response to stars is complex. On the one hand, the currency of a film star's persona is necessarily tied to the needs or pleasures which are prevalent in the culture at a particular moment; but the star's image and persona also speaks to the individual and the subjective and is closely connected to questions of identification and personal taste.
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