Basinger Jeanine - The Star Machine - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 insights and delightful asides Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio star machine worked when it worked how it failed when it didn't and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. She gives us case studies focusing on big stars groomed into the system: the awesomely beautiful (and disillusioned) Tyrone Power; the seductive disobedient Lana Turner; and a dazzling cast of others. She anatomizes their careers showing how their fame happened and what happened to them as a result. Deeply engrossing full of energy wit and wisdom The Star Machine is destined to become an classic of the film canon.
Title: The Star Machine
Author(s): Basinger Jeanine
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780307388759
Pages: 608 Pages, 221photographs In Text
Publication Date: 1/6/2009
Category: Films, Cinema