The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 209585-59553-1286
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781788312073
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Film
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is over 147,000 words long and is the product of 10 years of research carried out in 14 archives spread across Europe and North America. This research involved knitting together histories of the early film industries of France, the USA and the UK to identify historical forces not encapsulated by the film history of any single nation, and required the assembly of several large-scale datasets, such as details of 1,167 character-based series films released in the UK 1907-1912. The book’s findings build to a final chapter that demonstrates a new model of film stardom for film studies.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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