Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | P 96 .C35 B85 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5149154 |
P 96 .A86 M87 2007 An introduction to writing for electronic media : scriptwriting essentials across the genres / | P 96 .A86 S8 2006 Writing for the mass media / | P 96 .A86 W48 2008 Mediawriting : print, broadcast, and public relations / | P 96 .C35 B85 2012 Gods like us : on movie stardom and modern fame / | P 96 .C35 U53 2005 Understanding media : inside celebrity / | P 96 .C74 M57 2007 Arabic دور الإعلام الأمني في مكافحة الجريمة = The Role of media and security media in the fight / | P 96 .C742 U66 2007 Crime and the media : headlines versus reality / |
"How--and why--do we focus on those individuals we come to call stars? How does stardom both reflect and mask the person behind it? How have the image of stardom and our stars' images changed over the past hundred years? What does celebrity mean if people can become famous simply for being famous? Ty Burr answers these questions in this lively, wonderfully anecdotal history of stardom--both its blessings and its curses, for the star and the stargazer alike. From Florence Lawrence, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin, to Archie Leach (a.k.a. Cary Grant), Ruby Stevens (a.k.a. Barbara Stanwyck), and Marion Morrison (a.k.a. John Wayne), to Jim Belushi, Tom Cruise, and Julia Roberts, to such no-cal stars of today as the Kardashians and the new online celebrity (i.e., you and me), Burr takes us on a brilliantly insightful and entertaining journey through the modern fame game at its flashiest, its most indulgent, occasionally its most tragic and, ultimately, its most culturally revealing"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-387) and index.
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