On Stardom/Celebrity and Film Acting/Performance

Diposting oleh good reading on Rabu, 02 September 2009


Image of Barbara Stanwyck, 1907-1990

Film Studies For Free is star-studies-struck today, but it has opted to combine those glitzy fascinations with its deep interest in film acting and performance studies. The result is a broad search-topic which has brought forth yet another rich vein of online and openly accessible film and media studies, as the multiple links below -- to wonderful new work as well as to some classic research -- should testify.


  • Elizabeth Abele, '"The Glory of Cary Grant and Other Girlish Delights', Images Journal, Issue 5, November 9
  • Richard Armstrong, 'Modernity and the Maniac: The Fall of Janet Leigh', Images Journal, 2004: Page One: Introduction | Page Two: Janet Leigh in Touch of Evil | Page Three: Janet Leigh in Psycho Page Four: The Shower Scene | Page Five: Janet Leigh as Icon
  • Guy Austin, '"In Fear and Pain": Stardom and the Body in Two French Ghost Films', Scope, Issue 7, February 2007
  • Serafina K. Bathrick, 'The new star - A beauty and a buddy [Review of Patricia Erens, The Films of Shirley MacLaine (NY: A.S. Barnes, 1978)], Jump Cut, no. 21, Nov. 1979
  • Sylvie Blum-Reid, 'Review of Lisa Downing & Sue Harris, eds. From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 2007', H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 47
  • Lisa Bode: ‘Grave Robbing’ or ‘Career Comeback’? On the Digital Resurrection of Dead Screen Stars in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Laure Bouquerel, 'Bob Dylan, the Ordinary Star [in Don't Look Back]', Oral Tradition, 22/1 (2007): 151-161
  • 'Cinema and the Female Star - A Symposium Part 1', Senses of Cinema, 2002: Arletty by Bernard Hemingway; Stéphane Audran by Ray Young; Halle Berry by Charlie Kanganis; Louise Brooks by Tina Marie Camilleri; Geneviève Bujold by Girish Shambu; Bess Flowers by Joe McElhaney; Setsuko Hara by Dan Harper
  • 'Cinema and the Female Star - A Symposium Part 2', Senses of Cinema, 2002: Kate Hudson by Peter Tonguette; Anna Karina by Christa Fuller; Ling, Po by Feng-ying Ming; Melina Mercouri by Charlie Kanganis; Samantha Morton by Maximilian Le Cain; Cathy O'Donnell by Brian Frye; Bulle Ogier by Jit Phokaew
  • 'Cinema and the Female Star - A Symposium Part 3', Senses of Cinema, 2002: Elizabeth Taylor by Liz Burke; Lili Taylor by Anna Daly; Fay Tincher by Andrew Grossman; Mari Töröcsik by Dina Iordanova; Natalie Wood by Angela Costi; Xiao, Fangfang by Feng-ying Ming; Tsetsiliya Zervudaki by Jorge Didaco
  • Jamil Dakhlia, 'From the Olympians to the Ordinary Heroes: Stars in the French Popular Press' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Robert E Davis, 'Anita Page: Stardom in Transition', in Film and Television Stardom, ed by K-P R Hart (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) long excerpt
  • Jeannette Delamoir, 'Eyes Wide Shut: Tom, Nicole, Stardom and Visual Memory', Transformations, No. 3 (May 2002)
  • Rayna Denison, 'Disembodied Stars and the Cultural Meanings of Princess Mononoke's Soundscape', Scope, Portals Special Issue
  • Patricia Erens, 'Critical dialogue - In defense of stars [response to Bathrick]', Jump Cut, no. 21, Nov. 1979
  • Rebecca Feasey, 'Stardom and Distinction: Sharon Stone and the Problem of Legitimacy', Scope, May 2004
  • John Flaus, '''Thanks for your heart, Bart" [film acting theory]', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
  • Brian Gallagher, 'Stars: Some Historical Reflections on the Paradoxes of Stardom in the American Film Industry, 1910-1960', Images Journal, Issue 3
  • Christine Geraghty, 'Paris, Hollywood and Kay Kendall', in Rachel Moseley (ed), Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity, (Chap 10) pp. 121-133.
  • Tim Groves, 'The Un/forgiven Director', Screening the Past, March 2001
  • Tom Gunning, 'Chaplin and the body of modernity', Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005
  • Outi Hakola, 'On-screen and Off-screen Monstrosity of Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Michael Hammond, 'Charlie [Chaplin] as a Searchlight', Introduction, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005
  • Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, 'Introduction', Film and Television Stardom, ed by K-P R Hart (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)
  • Joan Hawkins, 'All the World's a Stage', Film-Philosophy, vol. 2 no. 1, January 1998
  • Susan Hayward, 'Stardom: Beyond Desire?' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Stephen Heath, 'Film Performance', CineTracts, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1977
  • Su Holmes, ‘Starring... Dyer?’: Re-visiting Star Studies and Contemporary Celebrity Culture', Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture © 2005 (University of Westminster, London), Vol. 2(2): 6-21
  • Ian Huffer, ''I wanted to be Rocky, but I also wanted to be his wife!': Heterosexuality and the (Re)construction of Gender in Female Film Audiences' Consumption of Sylvester Stallone', Particip@tions Volume 4, Issue 2 (November 2007)
  • Ian Huffer, "'New Man", Old Worlds: Re-articulating Masculinity in the Star Persona of Orlando Bloom', Scope, Issue 9, 2007
  • Ono Hiroyuki, 'From Chaplin to Kabuki', Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005
  • Jerry R Ivins, 'The Training of Stage Actors in Film/Video Acting Techniques: An Interdisciplinary Approach', PhD thesis, Texas Tech University, August 1993
  • Hanna Järvinen, 'Fans, Fawns and Fauns: Ballet Stardom, Dancing Genius and the Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Tamar Jeffers, "Should I surrender?": performing and interrogating female virginity in Hollywood films 1957-64', PhD thesis, University of Warwick
  • Gary Johnson and Grant Tracey, 'Hollywood Stars of the '30s, featuring James Cagney, Joan Crawford, and Barbara Stanwyck', Images Journal, Issue 1
  • Sun Jung, 'Bae Yong-Joon, Hybrid Masculinity & the Counter-coeval Desire of Japanese Female Fans', Particip@tions Volume 3, Issue 2 Special Edition (November 2006)
  • Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi, 'Introduction: Stars, History, and the Media' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Kimi Kärki, 'Cutting the Moss with Laser Beams: The Uses of History in The Rolling Stones Bridges To Babylon Stadium Tour' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Andrew Klevan, 'A Reply to Adrian Martin['s review of Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)]', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2008
  • Barbara Klinger, 'Say It Again, Sam: Movie Quotation, Performance and Masculinity',Particip@tions Volume 5, Issue 2 (November 2008)
  • Sven-Erik Klinkmann, 'Retro Icons and Anachronistic Artists' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Margia Kramer and Renee Shafrensky, 'Character assassination — Jean Seberg and information control', Jump Cut, no. 28, April 1983
  • Anneli Lehtisalo, '“Oh, My Sweet Hero!” The Filmstar Leif Wager as Emperor Alexander I in Tanssi yli hautojen (1950)' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Wing-Fai Leung, 'Discursive Stardom in Hong Kong and the Missing Referents' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Victoria Lowe, 'Performing Hitchcock': Robert Donat, Film Acting and The 39 Steps (1935)', Scope, Issue 14, June 2009
  • Rami Mähkä, 'Comedians as Stars: The Monty Python Troupe' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Charles Maland, 'Movies, Director/Performers, and Cultural History: Conceptualizing Chaplin and American Culture', Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005
  • Linda Marchant, 'Concentrated Vision: Celebrity Images from the 1930s and 1940s' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Adrian Martin, 'Secret Agents [ A review of Andrew Klevan, Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2007
  • Steve Master, 'A Review of Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation by Andrew Klevan [London: Wallflower, 2005]', Scope, Special Portals Issue
  • Anna Möttölä, 'Style Star – Admiring Audrey Hepburn in the 1950’s' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Thi Thanh Nga, 'The long march from Wong to Woo: Asians in Hollywood' (Race in Contemporary American Cinema: Part 5), Cineaste v21, n4 (Fall, 1995)
  • JaeYoon Park, 'Asia’s beloved sassy girl: Jun Ji-Hyun’s star image and her transnational stardom', Jump Cut, No. 51, spring 2009
  • Anne Helen Petersen,‘"We’re Making Our Own Paparazzi": Twitter and the Construction of Star Authenticity', Flow TV, May 28, 2009
  • Anne Petersen, 'Celebrity juice, not from concentrate: Perez Hilton, gossip blogs, and the new star production', Jump Cut, No. 49, spring 2007
  • Anne Helen Petersen, weblog: Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style - proto-scholastic musings on star studies 2.0
  • VI Pudovkin, Film Technique And Film Acting, Grove Press Inc, 1958
  • Zohar Altman Ravid, 'The star as a Creation and the Star as a creator: The Case of Barbra Streisand' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Martin Roth, 'Women in Hollywood musicals: Pulling the plug on Lina Lamont', Jump Cut, no. 35, April 1990
  • Ulrich Ruedel, 'Send in the Clones: Chaplin Imitators from Stage to Screen, from Circus to Cartoon', Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005
  • Daniel Sánchez Salas, 'The Two Spanish Lives Of "Charlot"’, Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005
  • Laura Saarenmaa, 'Female Stars and the Tricky Question of Drinking' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Amy Sargeant, 'Review of Alan Lovell and Peter Krämer (eds),Screen Acting, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik (ed.), Movie Acting: The Film Reader.(pp 170-176)', Film Studies, Vol. 8, Summer 2006 (scroll down)
  • Jaakko Seppälä, 'Love, Hate, and Suicidal Tendencies: The Construction of Rudolph Valentino's Stardom in Finland 1923-1927' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007
  • Steven Shaviro, 'A Brief History of Celebrity (with special reference to Asia Argento)', The Pinocchio Theory, May 7, 2009
  • Joerg Sternagel, 'From Inside Us: Experiencing the Film Actor in Michael Haneke's Caché', Film International #39, vol. 7, no. 3
  • Ginette Vincendeau, 'The New Wave at 50: The star reborn', Sight & Sound, May 2009
  • Greg Wahl, 'Go ahead, Punk; Go ahead, Clint [Eastwood]!', Images Journal, Issue 4: July 97
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