The Star Machine
$37.80
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2009
Summary
An immensely entertaining and lively look into Hollywood’s “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 50s, the studios worked to manufacture movie stars.
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From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars. With revelatory insight…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307388759 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0307388751 |
| Author: | Jeanine Basinger |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 646g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 34mm |
| Series: | Vintage Vintage |
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Critics Review
“Startling… . An enormous new book of star lore … Basinger nestles with almost delicious comfort into the intimate procedures of star manufacture.”
—The New Yorker
“Luxurious, often delicious… . Ms. Basinger tells her story with her customary verve and sass-she’s the Rosalind Russell of film historians.”
—The New York Observer
“Entertaining and informative… . [Basinger], whose enthusiasm for movies is reflected on every page, has a deft way of encapsulating the kernel of an actor’s attraction.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“Engaging… . Smart, deeply researched but also chatty and fast-flowing… . Basinger’s study of the studios’ relentless spin control makes an instructive prism through which to view long skeins of Hollywood film history.”
—Los Angeles Times
About The Author
Jeanine Basinger
Jeanine Basinger is the chair of film studies at Wesleyan University and the curator of the cinema archives there. She has written nine other books on film, including A Woman’s View- How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-1960; Silent Stars, winner of the William K. Everson Award for Film History; The World War II Combat Film- Anatomy of a Genre; and American Cinema- 100 Years of Filmmaking, the companion book for a ten-part PBS series. She lives with her husband in Middletown, Connecticut.
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