Cinema’s Melodramatic Celebrity: Film, Fame, and Personal Worth
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 38091511
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781911239819
- Publisher
- BFI Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781911239758
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2020
- 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
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Written over nearly ten years, this 95,000 word monograph spans several disciplines and develops an extended analysis of fame and celebrity that covers several decades and multiple media forms (novels, journalism, film and social media). Consisting of nine chapters and an afterward, the book develops a synthesis of historical and critical material and argument on celebrity that incorporates the philosophical debate on personal worth and public attention from Hobbes to Rousseau, the nineteenth-century stage melodrama and its relation to the cinematic star system, the screen’s narration of fame from Chaplin to Manning and the quest for esteem on social media.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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