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Using Eye Tracking and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) to Investigate Stardom

Sarah Thomas

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Amy Bell

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Seeing into Screens : Eye Tracking and the Moving Image

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...Acknowledging the impossibility for a viewer to maintain focus on a whole screen at any one time, an emerging body of work uses eye-tracking experiments to investigate viewer responses to film texts by determining where traditional filmic...

Artists’ biographies in film as popular art history

Doris Berger

Doris Berger is a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Her practice includes writing, teaching, curatorial and audiovisual work focusing on intersections of art and film in modern and contemporary American and European art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Projected Art History : Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Art can be disseminated in many ways: by means of exhibitions, books, guided tours, as well as by articles or documentaries. Editorials and photo essays in literary biographies, coffee table books, comics, children’s books, movies...

Hollywood’s art histories

Doris Berger

Doris Berger is a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Her practice includes writing, teaching, curatorial and audiovisual work focusing on intersections of art and film in modern and contemporary American and European art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Projected Art History : Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...This book has concentrated on a segment of popular art history, taking into consideration its intertextuality, intermediality, historicity, and functionality. It has demonstrated that this segment is an important factor in producing...

Theorizing Asian Cinema(s)

Anne T Ciecko

Anne T Ciecko

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Contemporary Asian Cinema : Popular Culture in a Global Frame

Berg, 2006

Book chapter

...As illustrated in the introduction to this book, the characters of Hock in Forever Fever and Sameer and Pooja in Dil Chahta Hai represent moments and positions of spectatorial identification with the screen image. Identification occurs...

Basquiat and celebrity culture

Doris Berger

Doris Berger is a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Her practice includes writing, teaching, curatorial and audiovisual work focusing on intersections of art and film in modern and contemporary American and European art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Projected Art History : Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

...In contrast to Pollock, the completion of the biopic BasquiatBasquiat aka Build a Fort, Set It on Fire, D: Julian Schnabel, USA 1996, 108 mins; Script: Lech Majewski, John F. Bowe, Michael Holman, Julian Schnabel; Cast: Jeffrey Wright...

Introduction

Julie Lobalzo Wright

Julie Lobalzo Wright is a Teaching Fellow in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published several articles and book chapters on film stardom and popular music and film. She is the co-editor, along with Lucy Bolton, of the BAFTSS winning Best Edited Collection, Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Crossover Stardom : Popular Male Music Stars in American Cinema

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...The cover image of this book was taken outside the Paramount Theatre in New York City in October of 1956, weeks before Elvis Presley’s first film, Love Me Tender (Robert D. Webb), was released. The enormous crowds watched as the forty-foot...

Pollock

Doris Berger

Doris Berger is a curator at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Her practice includes writing, teaching, curatorial and audiovisual work focusing on intersections of art and film in modern and contemporary American and European art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Projected Art History : Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...It is astounding that it has taken 50 years for the first biopic on Jackson Pollock to be produced since the stories about the artist Pollock are literally predestined for a biographical Hollywood production. Jackson Pollock is considered...

“I’m Like a Kaleidoscope”

Leslie H. Abramson

Leslie H. Abramson

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In the Limelight and Under the Microscope : Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity

Continuum, 2011

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...TO REGARD THE IMAGE OF MIA FARROW IN THE 1960S is to distinguish a figure who embodied the feminine, American culture, and Hollywood at the occasion of radical change. During a decade of profound social transformation mobilized...

“Mrs. Langtry Seems to Be on the Way to a Fortune”

Catherine Hindson

Catherine Hindson

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In the Limelight and Under the Microscope : Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity

Continuum, 2011

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...Moonshine June 23, 1888, 290.THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART’S 1878 ANNUAL EXHIBITION attracted thousands of visitors to London’s Piccadilly. Amid the estimated 1,200 exhibits on display at Burlington House, three portraits of a young woman from...

France’s “new Don Juan”: The Representation of Alain Delon’s Youth

Gwénaëlle Le Gras

Gwénaëlle Le Gras

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Alain Delon : Style, Stardom, and Masculinity

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...In Chapter 3, Gwénaëlle Legras examines Delon’s early media profile, showing how he was positioned between the generic traditions of French cinema of the late 1950s and the modernity that he was seen to represent both physically...