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Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity - Film, Fame, and Personal Worth (Hardcover)
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Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity - Film, Fame, and Personal Worth (Hardcover)
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Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck
argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same
worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth
to social esteem. Tracing the history of this conundrum back to the
philosophy of the seventeenth century and the theatre of the
eighteenth, she demonstrates its convergence in stage melodrama and
its intensification in the Hollywood star system. Are today's
celebrities worth our attention? In that demand for judgement and
the hope for its visual guidance, the melodramatic imagination
survives - permeating not only fiction film, but documentary, the
artist's film, and our self-exhibition on social media. Examining a
range of classical and contemporary films from Charlie Chaplin's
City Lights (1931) to Laura Poitras's Citizenfour (2014) , the many
remakes of A Star Is Born, the compulsory exhibitionism of
political celebrity and the unmasking of whistle-blowers, Merck
illustrates the ways in which the cinema constantly restages the
moral evaluation of prominent individuals, whether they are actors,
artists, politicians or activists.
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