Star Studies: A Critical Guide

Name: Star Studies: A Critical Guide
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By (author): M. Shingler

Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave''s Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive account of star studies for today''s film student. Via a critical evaluation of the work of leading film scholars, he provides a convincing argument for howthis important area of film studies has evolved. Building on this, he offerssome new directions for star scholarship, and ends by offering the film student a useful set of themes and issues for his or her own investigation. ''Star Studies'' is the perfect companion for the student who wishes to foster further research on stardom across a wide range of contexts, from national cinemas, to mainstream and marginal cinemas, to different historical periods and beyond.
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Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 135 x 190mm
Publication Date: 31 Jul 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781844574902

About M. Shingler

Martin Shingler is Senior Lecturer in Radio& Film Studies at the University of Sunderland (UK). He has specialist expertise in Hollywood melodrama and the woman''s film screen acting the star system film sound radio drama and comedy. He is the co-author of two books On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio with Cindy Wieringa (Arnold 1998) and Melodrama: Genre Style& Sensibility with John Mercer (Wallflower Press 2004). He has also published essays on the Hollywood film star Bette Davis in the books Hollywood Spectatorship eds. Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby (BFI 2001) and Screen Acting eds. Alan Lovell and Peter Kramer (Routledge 1999) and in the journals Screen the Journal of American Studies the Journal of Film& Video Theatre Annual and Film History. He has edited a dossier on Bette Davis for the journal Screen (2008) and an edition of the Radio Journal (2008). In addition to his work as a writer and editor Shingler has been involved in organising four major international conferences on sound in the media Sounding Out (Staffordshire University 2002) Sounding Out 2 (University of Nottingham 2004) Sounding Out 3 (University of Sunderland 2006) and Sounding Out 4 (Sunderland 2008) being the principal organiser for the last two events. This biennial symposium on sound in the media regularly brings together from around the world over a hundred theorists and practitioners of sound from film radio television new media audio-books sound art and electro-acoustic music.