TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burr,Ty
TI  - Gods like us: on movie stardom and modern fame 
SN  - 9780307377661 :
AV  - P96.C35 B85 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Celebrities in mass media
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Fame
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-387) and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -