Crank it Up! Jason Statham – Star
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 3
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526142771
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This is an edited collection of academic essays that focus on the British star, Jason Statham, offering an in-depth analysis of his star persona across a number of media forms including films, music videos, fashion and videogames. It considers Statham as a postmodern phenomenon presenting original findings about his representation of post-millennial masculine identity.
Gerrard instigated this project in 2016. The project was almost entirely under his leadership from inception to publication over the course of three years, shaping the style, content and ideas that ran throughout the collection. Professor Robert Shail acted as co-editor on the project to add his experience and to mentor Gerrard in his first outing as lead editor.
Research activities undertaken by Gerrard to realise this output included: solo-authoring a chapter on Statham as fashion icon, and writing the Introduction and Conclusion. This involved undertaking primary research at the BFI archives. He editied seven of thirteen chapters, co-editing one chapter. This process included guiding authors by drawing on his extensive knowledge of the subject and understanding of underpinning theoretical ideas so as to maintain a consistency of approach throughout.
The book took three years to come to fruition. Following a Call for Papers written by Gerrard, abstracts were reviewed and confirmed with contributors (including Hollywood film director Paul Feig, who directed Statham in Spy) and a publisher was found (Manchester University Press). All organisational and publishing activities were supervised by Gerrard including marketing and dissemination; liaising and mentoring contributors; working with the publisher’s editorial team; sourcing the cover design and seeking image use rights; and promoting the book at conferences, through social media, etc.
The collection distils a research project which extends the field of star studies and celebrity studies to consider contemporary issues of multimodal representation and gender.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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